Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another contrast between the English and American sportsman lies in the greater sense of personal discipline of the former", declared Henry. "One often hears that English athletes are surprisingly lax about training, but on that point I disagree. True, ale may be in evidence at an Oxford training table, but it is taken in small quantities, and in other respects the Englishman is more fastidious than the American...
...fewer men than a year ago. U. S. Steel's unfilled orders, indicator of business conditions, were 3,597,119, the least since last October. Decidedly, industry after prosperous 1926, has not had a prosperous late winter. However, the year's busiest season is immediately ahead. In contrast to this industrial quietude, money is plentiful. Therefore the values of securities have risen, as people have insistently sought outlets for investments. Because such investors are. willing to accept low interest payments, they snatched at U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's offerings last week...
Rubber Tires (Bessie Love). The heroine bundles her family into a rickety automobile, sets out for California and better fortune. Literally, luck is with her, for the manufacturers advertise a huge reward for return of her car. It is the first they ever made -valuable, therefore, by way of contrast. In chasing the party across the continent, the director provides good farce...
...which must be carried is deplored by the white trader or explorer. Furthermore the native's absolute disregard of social status based on property ownership and his perfect satisfaction with his lot makes him impossible as a laborer. In this respect the native of New Guinea furnishes a strong contrast to his industrious neighbor on the Island of Java...
...CRIMSON yesterday after his lecture at the Business School. "Twelve years ago, when the motion picture industry was getting its start, the movie-houses were frequented by the lower class of society. The pictures were mediocre and the so-called theatres were nothing more than cabarets. The great contrast between then and now in this industry, as I see it, was instigated by an improvement in the show-houses themselves. With an increase in the quality of the theatre came naturally films of higher quality. Subjects of more elevating moral status were chosen; higher paid actors and actresses were employed...