Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neutral Swiss and Swedes grew indignant enough to criticize the Red tactics, which, they reported, made truce inspection in North Korea "completely illusory." An official Swiss-Swedish report said: "All efforts [of] the Swedish and Swiss members of the Inspections Teams . . . have been constantly and persistently frustrated." In contrast, "the U.N. Command side . . . threw itself open to full control...
Listening to testimony for and against the proposed $20-per-capita cut in federal income taxes, the U.S. Senate's Finance Committee last week heard a clear contrast between the economic philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration and that of the Fair Deal Democrats. Speaking for the Administration was Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, lawyer and industrialist. For the Fair Deal Democrats the spokesman was Leon Keyserling, lawyer, economist and onetime bureaucrat, who was chairman of President Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers...
...cites the souped-up sentimentality of some of the programs' titles: So Will We Sing, Song of the Shining Mountains, This Is the Life, Bless This House, For Every Child, Look Up and Live, The Art of Living, What's Your Trouble? A happy contrast: Dr. Ralph W. Sockman's National Radio Pulpit, with a title that "conveys a true impression of what is to be offered, and does not promise you a song in your heart or a shot in the arm if you will listen...
Only in the U.S., reported Flesch, is there any remedial-reading problem. In Britain, kindergarten children read Three Little Pigs; in Germany, second-grade pupils can read aloud (without necessarily understanding all the words) almost anything in print. By contrast, average U.S. third-graders have a reading mastery of only 1,800 words. Why is the U.S. so far behind? Says Flesch: "We have decided to forget that we write with letters, and [instead] learn to read English as if it were Chinese...
...system." Twenty-five year old Gunter her officially belongs to Dunster House and the class of 1957. When he returns to his home and the Free University of Berlin next year, however, he will be eligible for a Master's Degree in Economics. This incongruance in status exemplifies the contrast Gunter has found between U.S. and German higher education. In agreement with many previous observers, Gunter summarizes these difference through the aims of the two systems; individual scholarship in the German University; citizenship in the American college...