Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside the people cheered gladly, warmly and with spirit in startling contrast to the tardy efforts in the Reichstag ceremony. But even at this an observer was moved to remark: "One wonders, gazing upward, at the black, white and red standard of the German Army sharing honors on the historic Konigsplatz with the black, red and gold flag of the republic whether it was not the soldiers' fatherland and their wartime leader who were being cheered instead of the Republican Constitution...
...small epitaph should be written for May Ediss, who used a Cockney accent and the leathern boots of a cattleman's daughter. Of course the West is a queer place and odd things happen out there, but not quite as bad as that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents...
About the time of Stinnes' death, Dr. Edmund H. Stinnes was described as "a youth of engaging personality and winning urbanity," a marked contrast, be it said, with his omnipotent father. "Junior" Stinnes, in the words of the deceased magnate, "is much more gifted and efficient than his father - he will succeed...
...time, in the 16 courses that were open then to undergraduates. Today, there begins a 14-day examination period in which nearly 4000 students in the University will take examinations in the 325 courses that are offered this year by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The contrast illustrates the transformation that Harvard has undergone in the third century of her existence...
...thunderous, irrepressible applause which greeted Professor Bliss Perry at the close of his course in the history of English Literature yesterday morning, was an interesting contrast to the dilatory clap-clap which celebrates the conclusion of the generality of courses in the University...