Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comparison between Soviet and U.S. schools is impossible, Conant said, since one can only contrast their relative usefulnesses to the two countries. The success of each can be measured only in the degree to which it produces adherents of communism or democracy...
...even need the one game to be able to recognize the performers. Nearly everybody knows everybody else at a soccer contest anyway, and the great thing about the game is that you can see faces. Few rely on numbers to identify the players. This is in direct contrast with football clashes, where the large throng fulfilling the weekly social requirement forgets uniform numbers between Saturdays and must depend on squad listings...
...contrast to Crawford, 'Poon President Edward Tarlov '60 took a broad view of the matter, laughing off the confiscation as a "pretty poor effort." He grounded his assertion on the fact that, despite police action, 'Poon candidates had been able to sell a large number of parodies on Bowl grounds. As for the 300 copies, he stated that they were being held in New Haven and would be reclaimed by the magazine this weekend...
Texans Three. One big reason for Robert Anderson's success as Treasury Secretary is that, in vivid contrast with his outspoken, impatient predecessor, he stays on good terms with the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. In this he has an accident of geography going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them...
Japan's famed culture-pearl industry produces pearls of similar quality, but the oysters suited to Japan's waters rarely develop a pearl bigger than two-fifths of an inch in diameter, and take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...