Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florence Moore, star comedience of "Breakfast in Bed", is the headliner at Keith's this week, offering some unusual songs and an above-the-average line of jokes. Her act seems a little breathless, however, especially in contrast with the easy-going patter of Jack Benney, who amuses highly without apparent effort. Palo and Palet, "Less Bouffons Musical" received the warmest reception of all on Monday night, after their offerings on the accordion, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, and other wind instruments. They played with a versatility and ease which astonished the audience and brought many rounds of applause. Franklyn and Charles...
Although organized cheering is not as essential in the stands as in the Stadium, spontaneous "rooting" from speculators does encourage the player and makes a real difference. The support of this type that was accorded to Georgia Tech, winning or losing, throughout the entire nine innings was a striking contrast to what the Harvard players have been resigned to hearing at home--the University out cheered by a handful of the visitors', loyal alumni...
...with having graduated seventy men from its course in oil geology; at least three colleges are specializing in this science; the columns of a certain reputable trade journal contain professional cards of over fifty individuals and firms who specialize in oil geology; and the number has lately been increasing. Contrast these circumstances with the fact that the United States Geological Survey has calculated that over forty percent of the petroleum of the United States has already been taken from the ground and the great majority of our known oil fields have been discovered. It will be seen, therefore, that tremendous...
...this instruction is given at the various hospitals associated with the Medical School. The School is very closely affiliated with the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston City Hospital, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and a group of other hospitals, making available exceptional clinical facilities. It is interesting to contrast the unusually excellent facilities which the School now has for teaching medicine with those which were available at the time the School was started. The buildings now occupy eleven acres of ground and the teaching staff numbers 220. When the School began, the first lectures were given in the basement...
This power, said Mr. Morgenthau, must be America, for in contrast to the poverty and weakness of the Old World, we are wealthy and powerful. But, continued Mr. Morgenthau, on returning to this country from Europe that was so alive with momentous issues, he was disgusted to see that we had suspended our international thinking and had apparently for gotten a problem that is as much ours as any one else...