Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German student in contrast to the students in your colleges has no fixed, living quarters and no yearly or half yearly examination. He attends a university about four years, possibly as few as three, possibly as many as seven. During that period he may choose the number and the character of the lectures he wishes to attend and he takes only one, final examination for a degree after he has spent several years at the university and feels himself competent on his subject...
...Rifle Club members shoot the Springfield government service rifle at a stationary bullseye, in contrast to the Gun Club, which shoots moving clay pigeons...
...Business School shows an increase of 125 over last year with 862 in contrast to 737 as the 1927 figure...
...enchantment of diffused sunlight and even the Brighton abattoir deludes one into a vague resentment against its vociferous detractors. The passing of slim, long, smoothly-swinging eights, joyful with the leisurely power of an early season paddle but intensifies the easy rhythm of the scene, while an artistic contrast is afforded by the soft pad-padding of the occasional cross-country candidate. Through the trees the glimpses of the fields persuade one that men still play games because they love them...
...lying back while his earthly frame is kneaded, Mr. Chief Justice thinks about 1908 in contrast to 1928, it is doubtful that his thought is political. A knowing newsman once said that the Taft bump of political sagacity was really a dent. True though that may be, there are more bumps than dents in the Taft makeup, mental as well as physical, and as he looks back from a double eminence never before achieved in the U. S., it may be that he sees far more than any politician of comparable age would...