Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast, low as well as high, in safety. In all the crack-ups that attended experimentation - and they were not numerous - no one was seriously hurt, not even before de la Cierva learned how to build a rotor that would not fly itself to pieces. Promoter. In sharp contrast to the flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The elder Pitcairn, a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg...
Only 471 votes were cast in the election in contrast to the 683 balloted last year when the preferential system was used...
...contrast between the two factions is in the different manner in which they approach the solution of this hardship. To attempt to solve it, as would Catholicism, by the application of a code of morals which ignores the curse of industrial conditions, can in the end only prove disastrous. Sincere professing Catholics are governed by an inflexible law. Since they accept it, they need have nothing to do with a human law which will satisfactorily meet the needs of those of other sects. There is nothing in the bills before the Massachusetts and Federal Legislatures that would make the giving...
...must be admitted that, in contrast to some of the Yale dormitories, Lowell and Dunster House have very little atmosphere. The corridors, rooms and bathrooms, remind one of a hotel rather than a college dormitory...
...post as copilot. The DO-X carried a crew of 13, with 1,100 Ib. of mail (180,000 letters & cards) and six passengers, among them the Portuguese Admiral Gago Coutinho who in 1922 made the first flight from Europe to South America. In happy contrast to the misfortune-dogged jumps from Switzerland to Lisbon, last week's 715-1111. flight to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands was well-favored by wind & weather, uneventful. There it was held again to await good weather for the next jumps to the Cape Verde Islands (845 mi.), to Fernando Noronha...