Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups by looking sad when he had to veto the school program that the sales tax would have supported. In outspoken contrast, Professor (of Agricultural Economics) Murray lectures that the sales tax is the only way to keep property taxes from "going through the ceiling," generally talks like a friendly revenue agent. Unless he can pull off a miracle to top his primary performance, his campaign against Loveless is likely to be just...
...prevalent through out the country. Even the Advanced Placement English class finds trouble fitting in enough time to work on writing. The school administration has moved this year, however, to place more stress on English composition work. English teachers have been limited to four classes a day, in contrast with the normal load of five for other teachers. The extra time, according to the principal, will enable pupils and teachers "to work more industriously in developing quality in writing...
...natural gesture of good will and a recognition of our heritage. In a week when anti-Americanism was being manifested around the world from Lebanon to Caracas, the warmth with which we were received by 5,000 people in the Rhine valley was a small, but pleasant, contrast...
...marital status: 1,830 were single, 2,773 married, and 607 were widowed, divorced or separated. In contrast with the widely accepted notion that married women who already have several children make up the bulk of the abortion trade, only 402 of Timanus' operations were performed on women who had more than two children...
...Thurber's canines are novel in every respect. They are large and friendly, with sad eyes, huge ears, and long tails. They play the role of impersonal participants in the action of life, and are likened by many to the chorus in Greek tragedy. They represent normalcy in contrast to man. "My conclusions entirely support the theory that dogs have a saner family life than people," the author states. They do not mask their feelings and regiment their emotions. (For full treatment of this theme see Is Sex Necessary...