Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an informal, unhampered access to the advantages of the University is in direct contrast to the established ritual required of those passing through the mill, grinding out its yearly crop of Ph. D.'s. It might be suggested that the Commonwealth scholars derive as much advantage from their unconventional methods of study as those earnest young men whose end in life is to enjoy the prestige of a Doctorship...
...today, the play's the thing. Cambridge this afternoon will be intrinsically a study in contrasts: a contrast in the grey uniforms "at case" against the Fall bronze of the Yard, and between the spontaneous, vivid motley of fifty thousand civilians with the rhythmic tread of soldiers on parade. And at the Stadium, the counter-point crashes into crescendo. Simplicity, incarnated in the Corps from the Hudson faces across the field unending Variety, personified by the men on the banks of the Charles. Harvard takes a cordial and somewhat selfish pleasure in bidding the Cadets welcome...
Another of the many permutations amid the Houses paves the way for the heavy of beautiful belles, who provide a contrast with the strong masculinity of football Saturdays, to imbibe tea and incidentally Dunsterish and Lowellian atmosphere. At least, this was the announcement greeting the ears of Time Out this week. Buffet lunches, tea with lemon and decorum are to become fixtures of the Autumn afternoons before the clash of calf on pigskin...
Preeminent will be the Beethoven Seventh symphony in A major which exemplifies much of the Bonn master's power of orchestration. While it does not contain the majestic sweep of the Fifth or the magnitude of the Ninth it does carry the unmistakable seal of his genius for contrast, counter-point, and imitation...
Thus, while in contrast to murders for love, for revenge, for money, happened one of the few murders ever done for business jealousy. Ranking officer after President Byers was his murderer. Next in line was Vice President George Poindexter Bagsby, general solicitor. Promptly he assumed his duties, for although passenger trains were halted for ten minutes on the day of each funeral, service must continue.? That too is a rule of the railroad game...