Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leverett's activities contrast somewhat with the plans of the other houses. Winthrop for instance, advertises "Dancing (ETC!) in Courtyard" for Friday and a "Moonlight Dance (and Romance) Cruise" on Saturday evening. The Winthrop House Committee states that dress for the cruise will be "very informal: Bermudas, chinos or less if you can escape the police." They add, however, that "those who miss the boat will miss the boat...
...Office of Civilian Defense Mobilization, in contrast, has been a $63 million sprawling network with some twelve hundred employees and little co-ordination between municipal, state, and national programs. Part of its trouble has been lack of integration with other military branches in the National Security Council. In any case, its past operations have been characterized by unrealistic programs met by public apathy. At the same time its budgets have exceeded necessity, and Congress has slashed them by as much as half. In 1956, for example, the OCDM asked for $35 million to build air-raid shelters which the hydrogen...
...contrast, the varsity will use two sophomores, Bill Rose and Bob David in the number six and seven spots. However, both are promising young players and should aid today in stopping the Crusaders...
...contrast to this unevenly matched couple is Sangazure and Pointdextre as played by Elizabeth Stearns and David Stone. Both are fine actors and, although Miss Stearns' diction is a trifle unclear, their singing is good enough to make their first act duet one of the highpoints of the evening...
...contrast, at Harvard over ninety percent of those entering the college graduate, a greater percentage than that of any other college in the United States. By far the greatest proportion of these do so in the normal four-year program. It is socially unusual to leave Harvard. Many people, however, do leave this college before they graduate, and a great many others consider leaving at some time during their college career. The decision to leave is regarded as a serious one by most of those making it, reflecting the degree of seriousness with which most of those people regard Harvard...