Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...
...Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat or contrast these details has created a series of intimate pictures and a minor symbolism running throughout the book. At their highest, the pictures do justice to the emotional relationships of the characters...
Another interesting contrast between English and American methods is that most of the hard work is done during vacations, while sports and activities hold first place during the term of residence. Freedom from enforced academic engagements, however, gives the students an extremely valuable time in which to assimilate their work before examinations. "A time for absorption or," said Professor Adams, "as the Americans say, time of review is to be preferred to old fashioned methods of cramming...
When the Secretary sat down to write it, he must have smiled to think that, in contrast to the harrowing complexity of Chinese news, a statement of U. S. policy would be one of the easiest any Secretary of State was ever asked to write. This is what...
...interesting contrast is furnished by the graduate and undergraduate business student," said Professor Willits "The Wharton School is an undergraduate school of business primarily. We have a two year graduate course in which men enroll who have graduated from an Arts College, but our chief attention is devoted to those who expect to enter business life after four years of college work. In consequence we have to recognize in our curriculum not only the business subjects, but also those 'educational universals' which should be in the possession of every educated man. I have found many experiments being tried...