Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening disclosed a Crimson squad perfectly conditioned and near the top of its potential form. It offered a sharp contrast to the whitewash which the University received last year and to successive relay defeats in every year since the war. Especially does the University showing augur well for for its success against Cornell and Dartmouth on February 16 and in the intercollegiates two weeks later...
...Harvard Union yesterday afternoon spoke on a subject that hundreds of men--warriors, statesmen, orators and authors--have touched on before. But he brought to his subject the pathos and the humor which are a part of his own make up, and this time the pathos was heightened by contrast with the humor. He spoke on relations personal and international...
...Deservedness. "Contrast the $30 per month received by the soldiers during the War with what those at home made during that period. . . . The lad who was fighting in your behalf for $30 a month; out of the $30 a month from many of them $15 were taken as an allotment for relatives, and $6 a month to pay insurance, so that out of $30 a month the soldier had left in many, many instances, an average of $9 a month, or 30?...
There was a considerable opinion in the press that the plan presented nothing new and this was described either as "inevitable" or "unfortunate." An amusing example of the contrast of opinion appeared at once in the Manhattan papers...
...refreshed feeling as when in the presence of a thoroughbred horse." Certainly if all human beings are as incoherent, as unbalanced, and as full of tangled fancies, lusts, insanities as most of his characters, the clear-headedness and implicity of character of the thoroughbred must be a soul-satisfying contrast. And it is not entirely certain that his apparent exaggeration of emotional complexities is really exaggeration...