Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daigh selected Free-lancer Frederic Mortimer Delano (fourth cousin to the President), 40, to help shape up Photo-Facts. A metropolitan "feeler number" in August was so successful Publisher Fawcett put on newsstands this week 175,000 copies of the first regular Photo-Facts issue, a modest figure in contrast to Fawcett's bestseller, True Confessions, which has reached 1,100,000 a month...
...accessible to the common Harvard student as the burial chamber of Cheops to the common Egyptian serf; and in Fine Arts le Professor Koehler will probably continue to compare the exterior dimensions of Widener to those of the Parthenon, unaware of the irony should his listeners be inclined to contrast their interiors...
...last-named composer in represented by his famous Third or "Eroica" Symphony which was played last weekend in Boston during the Friday and Saturday series. In contrast to this great work is a recent orchestral suite by the Russian musician, Sergo Prokefloff, who is well known for both his composing and pianoforte abilities. This particular suite is an arrangement of his incidental music to the Soviet film, "Lieutenant Kije," and is grouped into five movements of a light and satirical mood. The film was produced in the U. S. S. R. in 1933 and the music is being heard...
...vivid contrast, Freshman David Mitchell of Kentucky, and Harvard, blasted all precious records by devouring 18 successive ice creams after a full meal at the Union. This is indeed a sad commentary on the amount of food in one of the Union's "full course evening meals." --The Yale News...
...Spanish war as partisanship against democracy, the U. S. letter asked: "Is this to be the policy of the Catholic Church in other democratic countries, where antecedents of the present Spanish struggle were fought to a conclusion centuries ago, and Church and State permanently separated? . . . Certainly the contrast between the respected and secure position of the Church in America and its troubles in Catholic Spain demonstrates conclusively that separation of Church and State is as beneficial to the Church as it is to the State. Yet we cannot help being disturbed by the fact that no leaders of the Catholic...