Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigor or efficiency is sufficiently strong to make astounding the news that under--or despite government management the "Leviathan" has won the speed honors of the North Atlantic. But while this record is a pleasing tribute to the efficiency of the "Leviathan's officers, it serves by force of contrast to direct attention to the thousands of public-owned ships rotting idly at anchor in the bays and rivers of the Atlantic and Pacific...
...Committee on the Choice of Vocations it is peculiarly fitting that Mr. Wickersham should discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken out recently, and breaks out periodically, at Washington. Certainly...
...addition to the large number of men with intercollegiate experience Captain Beals will have the support of several stars from the 1927 outfit, whose record furnishes a striking contrast to that of the University this year. Above all others Zarakov will do much to supply the dominating figure which has been missed since Owen's graduation. His presence, with Hamlen and Scott, should provide, the Crimson with two forward lines of almost equal calibre, as Austin, Hodder, and Beals would furnish the other combination. Chase and Hammond will be the logical defense men, while Coady, captain of the 1927 sextet...
...principles" are principally one-entrance into the League of Nations. In that respect he is absolutely Wilsonian-not, of course, that Mr. Cox has the other attributes of the late President. Samuel G. Blythe put well the contrast between Cox and Wilson by asking each what was the outstanding feature of the President's office. Said Wilson: "The power of decisions." Said Cox: "The power to take a situation by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers and shake a result out of it." If William G. McAdoo is out of the race, then...
...each of the matches the aggressiveness of the University wrestlers stood out in sharp contrast to the almost purely defensive tactics used by their adversaries. In spite of this fact the only fall for the Crimson was scored when Hill threw Zito with a headlock and crotch hold...