Word: contrastedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowning the diplomacy of Charles Evans Hughes, last week, came an able address in which he displayed the general benevolence of the U. S. toward Latin America in favorable contrast to those occasional, specific U. S. acts which Latins call "imperialistic." Said Mr. Hughes: ". . . It is the firm policy of the United States to respect the territorial integrity of the American republics. We have no policy of aggression. We do not wish their territory. ... If we had cherished an imperialistic purpose we should have remained in Santo Domingo; but we withdrew...
...Contrast with $500,000 made in the U. S. in the season...
...high, but whether you go to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon, India, or Africa, you find persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when no one could look forward to a cure...
...effective. And unfortunately "Wings" outdoes either of the other two in the amount of slush that is thrown in. In "Wings" it is particularly out of place, because the genuine material of the picture is enough to make it exceptional, and the other element jars terribly by contrast...
...Hurd merely presents an analysis of Oxford's personal methods, based upon the personality of the tutor, as delineated in contrast to the stamping mold of American college machinery. He attacks the Oxford system for the boredom and indifference which thirty years of monotonous repetition forces upon even the best of tutors...