Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there yet exists that keen rivalry and high interest which is always present when teams of manifest training and ability take to the field. Questions of expediency to one side, there is an undeniable zest to intersectional hostilities which can only be accounted for by the novelty of the contrast presented by strange names and different methods meeting and clashing with those more familiar...
...plan is a significant one. In contrast to Owen D. Young's tearful pleas for money to tide over the starving, here is a hard-headed measure of a man's real willingness to work. The asperities of rock-hammer and timber-axe will soon enough sort out the industrious needy from the conveniently unemployed. Any able-bodied man can keep body and soul together at the work provided without a drain upon the state, thus greatly lessening the need for downright dole...
...late Duke, in glaring contrast to other members of the Royal Family, was an ardent Fascist, orations in his praise came easy. Next week the Chamber will debate, will later approve the Fascist Budget. Next month Italy's equally well-trained Senate will meet, obey...
...contrast of $400,000,000 with the $500,000,000 figure which was originally mentioned as N. C. C.'s objective, and with the billion which was later written into its charter, was not taken by Mr. Miller's listeners as an ominous sign. On the contrary, the fact seemed to be that the mere planning and organizing of N. C. C., in advance of its completion and operation, had profoundly ameliorated the conditions which had made N. C. C. seem necessary. Since credit is almost entirely psychological, the main effect of the national banking stabilizer was psychological...
...under the Old plan of College Board Examinations, 40 per cent under the New Plan, and the remaining 15 per cent under the Highest Seventh Plan This indicates a decided reversion to the original plan of spreading the College Board examinations over a period of years and stands in contrast to the situation last year when the New Plan was more popular by 100 candidates. It is the policy of the College to advise high and preparatory school students to center by the New Plan and to discourage especially the use of the Highest Seventh Plan...