Word: difference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard and Yale University football teams will be practically equal in weight and size this afternoon according to a comparison of the probable line-ups. Figures show that in no department do the two teams differ in weight by more than three pounds...
...very glad to congratulate out Fifteen after their visit to New Haven, especially since the Yale man turned toward them his social side, anxious to promote that rational variance which ought always to exist between the two Universities. Our systems of government differ not a little: and the characteristics of life at Cambridge are at radical variance with theirs. No wonder, then, that we undergraduates often take issue with them; yet all ill facilities can be put aside by the exercise of cordiality and frankness. This suggests the fact that the Harvard men who were present at the game...
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...great men spoke on the same occasion. Their sentiments were as different as their manners of expression. One has held what the other holds-an exalted post. One is an " out," the other an " in"; one a Democrat, the other a Republican; one a professor, the other a lawyer; one an ex-President, the other a President; one Woodrow Wilson, the other Calvin Coolidge. Perhaps it was natural that they should differ...
...Earl Birkenhead: " Said I in a speech to Glasgow University students: 'The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout arms and sharp swords, and it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny...