Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrast to the Kansas method of settling labor problems, Labor has established an educational institution by which it hopes to work out its own salvation. Brookwood College at Katonah, N. Y., the first labor college in this country, held its first Commencement two weeks ago and in spite of the modest size of its graduating class, it has received unusual notice from the country at large. Its curriculum is reduced to the bare bones of utility. In a two year course sociology, psychology, labor statistics, and labor problems are taught, and two hours of manual labor daily are required...
...Charles E. Heitman of the Christian Science Committee on Publication wrote a courteous letter to the editors of TIME, referring to quotations from London papers published in these columns by way of contrast with The Monitor's story...
...food given the prisoners", Mr. Hendry stated, "in contrast with former prison diets of bread and water and water and bread is as good as furnished by any public institution where over 600 people are fed each meal. Still another feature of the modern penal system is the exact physical attention given each incoming prisoner. Each man is given an exhaustive examination that brings to light every possible defect. In addition to this examination, Bertillion measurements and finger prints are taken so that each man is perpetually classified. If any of the defects can be remedied the patient is immediately...
...almost insignificant plot in an attempt to bring unity out of the mass of slightly related material. In this the author has failed. At first the reader is absorbed with the skillful presentation of the Vane household in New England, and one is pleased with the agreeable contrast in the portrayal of Michael Hare and his luxurious surroundings on Fifth Avenue. But it is easy to become impatient, as unimportant characters and situations are introduced merely for the purpose of creating new pictures, making it hard to follow a main thread through the maze of deviating portrayal...
...What a contrast to step into her study! Piles of mail; manuscripts; a sheaf of speeches for a play here; the beginning of an article there; a pile of invitations on the corner of the desk. Never satisfied, never stopping, Mrs. Rinehart is the indefatigable woman of action...