Word: contrastedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Entente is French for understanding which, in diplomatic parlance, has the further connotation of being unwritten. An alliance, in contrast, is a formal, written contract...
...Newman is unmerciful to the man Wagner. His object is not, however to condemn him, but to make him the more real by the contrast of his pettiness and infirmities of character with his essential greatness of achievement. There is an enormous gap, we find, between the man and the artist?"the most many-sided of musicians...
...evident to every spectator that the Harvard team could not have beaten the Princeton team, even if they had played far beyond themselves and there is no disgrace nor no cause for self-reproach whenever one loses to a superior opponent. I am simply greatly worried about the contrast in the general condition and attitude of the two sets of players, one of the most striking and even tragic contrasts I have seen in the forty-five years of following football contests, and I speak as an old football player myself and a lover and well-wisher of the game...
...Crew Z are attracting attention this Fall, and will undoubtedly be given a chance on the first eight during the year. The keen fight for positions this fall is evidenced by the regularity with which men on each of the first three eights report for practice, in contrast with candidates for some of the other crews...
...literary critic . . . perhaps the fore- most in America." Hereafter there will be no excuse for any U. S. newspaper to be without at least one redeeming feature. For a moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...