Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to the red, green, and blue spires which now dominate the Cambridge sky-line, the new tower on the Adams House unit rising where Russell Hall stood, will be gilded, it was announced yesterday by J. P. Baxter, associate professor of History, and Master of Adams House...
Members of the new Transamerica board, most of whom are "dummies" to be replaced later by Californians. elected Mr. Giannini chairman. Taking a last crack at the Walker management, Mr. Giannini announced that he would serve without compensation in contrast to the former chairman's salary of $100.000. John M. Grant, manager of Transamerica's London office, was made president, replacing James Augustus Bacigalupi, onetime staunch Giannini friend...
...What a contrast there is between this firm-fleshed, bouncing gamin and the delicate, well brought-up little boy by Desidevaerio. The charm of this master's busts of children is almost too evanescent a thing to describe in words. One will want to look at this little head from every angle to enjoy the play of light on the wonderfully soft texture of the marble, to see how well the sculptor has caught the ever-changing expression, mischievous and yet touched with sadness, that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna...
Investigator Knickerbocker found 15,000,000 Germans on the dole, wrote touchingly of abject poverty in the Red quarter of Berlin in striking contrast to gay night life around the Kurfursten Damm. In the town of Falkenstein, Saxony, he found half the population on the dole; in Thuringian villages the spectre of starvation. In Essen there was the ever-present fear of a new French invasion of the Ruhr, overshadowing the threat of Communism. Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding...
...nothing could be more convenient than the exhibit in Lowell House. It is possible for men to saunter casually into the Common Room after dining, and satisfy their natural craving for the artistic with a minimum of time and energy spent. The congenial atmosphere of the Common Room, in contrast to the air of formality which pervades Fogg, or any other museum of art, places the observer at his case, and permits him to derive a maximum of pleasure from the exhibit. Furthermore the popularity of the Common Room has been increased: thus intercourse between men of the house...