Word: difference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germ-free guinea pigs, Dr. Reyniers noticed, ''are more active and develop heartier appetites than their contaminated brothers and sisters." Whether the tuberculosis, scarlet fever and other diseases which they are going to be infected with differ from such diseases in normally raised guinea pigs now is something for bacteriologists to investigate...
...education he would combine senior high school and junior college on a 6-4-4-2 pattern (six years of grammar school, four of junior high, four of senior-high-plus-junior-college, with an extra two years or more of university work for serious students only). Many educators differ on the specific pattern but agree on the aims...
...demands, lately revived by British Liberals, for tariff cuts by His Majesty's Government, Mr. Chamberlain retorted: "I entirely differ with the suggestion that it is necessary to take off tariffs in order to restore export trade. . . . Some may be contemptuous over our small advances in exports, but I do not believe there is any other country-unless it be Japan- which can show a similar increase...
...Sean O'Casey's play, written in understandable indignation at Boston's occasional stupidity in the matter of censorship, runs a little wild in matters of fact. I take it, from your reference to the critics, that you haven't read the play; in any case, I beg to differ with your statement that it has been termed "great" by the "most experienced dramatic critics in the United States." Some of them said that, some said quite the contrary, most were agreed that it was considerably inferior to O'Casey's best work...
...criminals in ten states. From their data he finds not only that criminals are physically marked off from the general population-chiefly by inferiority of bodily dimensions-but that there is "well nigh incredible relationship of body build to nature of offense." An example: First-degree murderers differ from other criminals in being older, heavier, taller, with bigger chest and head circumferences, narrower foreheads, longer and narrower noses, broader jaws...