Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deal of fun has been poked at the so-called English attitude of "sport for sport's sake". It has been ridiculed as producing only mediocre, half-hearted athletics and the various "moral victory" explanations of defeat. But whatever its faults, real or imagined, it does point out by contrast some of the defeats in our American adaptation of the Spartan creed: "Gome back with your shield...
...sharp contrast it is interesting to hear the opinion of Samuel Res. President of the Pennsylvania Railroad system and not a college graduate himself. "Other things being equal", said Mr. Rea recently, "the college man will go ahead faster and get further than the man who lacks that great initial advantage. We have reached the point where the preliminary training of a college or university course is no longer looked upon merely as an advantage but has become, practically speaking, a necessity for the young man who aims at a place in the executive forces." In the Pennsylvania system, where...
...hammer-throw, in contrast to the shot-put is almost sure to win first place. He finished second in the Penn Relay Carnival, and won the event against the Oxford-Cambridge team last summer, and since then, his form has shown remarkable improvement, with a distance gain in his distances as a result. One of his throws in the M. I. T. meet last Saturday was well over 160 feet, but was foul by inches. Provided that he can stay within the circle, he will surely outdistance Cruiksbank, the bast Eli entry, while Marshall is very likely to win third...
...constant outcroppings of well-worn musical comedy tricks leads one to suspect considerable alteration from the original. There is mention of flappers as well as of other things quite unknown "when Hector was a lad", and the stage business is straight from Broadway. Indeed, it offered a strange contrast of methods to find the modified recitative of the original score standing side by side with stage capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint of Mr. Brian's playing prevented much of the buffoonery from being quite out of place. There is difference between...
There have been numerous despairing surveys recently calling attention to the careless, inefficient, and indifferent treatment which the aeroplane has received in this country and contrasting it, amid gloomy forebodings, with the giant strides taken in this field by Europe. Admittedly the pessimists have facts to uphold the contrast. France is blessed with eight companies which handled about fifteen thousand passengers and thirty tons of express and mail in the year just passed, and by means of government subsidies even managed to make both ends meet. But America has only her mail planes, a few private companies operating...