Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harsh dissonance was toned down here, although a good contrast was maintained between the high soprano and the low strings. This was especially notable in the third song, in which Miss Lunn's voice was set off perfectly by Mr. Eleftherakis' muted viola...
...payroll of the city of San Francisco, a brawny back assures a job applicant of more pay than does a trained brain. A city laborer, the San Francisco Examiner reported in a roundup last week, earns about $465 a month. By contrast, librarians (with five years of training required) get $390-$450 a month, registered nurses $350-$410, bacteriological lab assistants $31 $-$360, X-ray technicians $345-$400, dietitians...
...speed and efficiency of the Navy-Marine Corps operation was in contrast with the vagueness of the justification put forth by President Eisenhower...
...character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter is usually a product of exacting requirements, the work leading to it places a premium on memory ... In contrast, the Ph.D. requires the candidate to make a significant contribution to the store of knowledge...
...presence of the 100-man U.N. Observation Group slowed deliveries of arms and men from Syria. Half-jokingly, Jumblatt told U.N. officers that where he formerly got a mule train of supplies every night, a caravan now arrived only every second or third night "because of you people." By contrast, the government's forces had plenty of arms, and last week U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock announced that additional U.S. shipments were...