Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Result, in many cases, was a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde contrast between the right-right and left-left pictures. Most subjects violently disliked one, liked the other. Said a schizophrenic murderer, looking at his right-right face: "This man has a psychic trouble, but he is intelligent." Said a woman with a persecution mania, of her own left-left face: "There might be such people, but they must be rare...
Then they started talking, about the wonders of Cambridge, and the inevitable contrast with life at sea . . . "Two of us in a room that would hold thirty on a ship" . . . "The guys told me I'd have to eat goldfish" . . . "It's going to be tough taking math after seven years" . . . "I'm going to work like hell at the beginning to get on to this stuff" . . . "After just looking at this place I want to stick" . . . "Wonder if they'll give us credit towards a degree...
...striking contrast to the actions of a company back in 1937 [S. E. Massengill] when a defective sulfanilamide made by it was permitted to cause more than 100 deaths because proper public warning was not given. I suppose anything which causes infants to vomit is dangerous but so far we've had no reports of serious results." The consensus of the publicity-wise was in agreement with Dr. Dunbar - Centaur's costly action in its nightmarish plight may turn out to be excellent advertising in the long...
...British regiments (in contrast to those of the U.S., which contain only three battalions) are geographic, professional, and sometimes almost social organisms, and can be expanded indefinitely in wartime. A regiment raised from an English county may contain as many as 35 battalions. British regiments may therefore be scattered through several divisions, several armies...
Speaking in a dual capacity as governor of the Commonwealth in which the University has grown from such small foundations to its present size and as a leading alumnus of the College, Saltonstall commented on the contrast between the outlook for youth in America and in occupied lands abroad...