Word: difference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander G. Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan, has found occasion to differ with the editors of the Michigan Daily. The cause for this rift is a number of editorials which ran recently in the paper and which Dr. Ruthven characterizes as "tasteless and objectionable." The editorials themselves are not on hand but from the subjects given it is possible to deduce that they contained quite a bit of truth--truth that hurt some people's sensibilities. One of them criticizes the conduct of the American Legion members in their recent convention at Detroit, another disagreed with the dean...
...Faculty numbers 12, and there are no exchange professors. French and American methods of doing business differ in so many respects that it would be idle for an American to lecture to French classes. Nevertheless, the Centre offers one course in French and one in German each year, usually a series of lectures by prominent business men; in this way those who profess knowledge of these languages may give proof of their ability...
...working now upon two things,'' he said. ''First, an explanation based upon pure mathematics of certain things which Professor Einstein has also attempted to explain. My conclusions in certain respects differ from and to that extent tend to disprove the Einstein Theory. . . . My explanations of natural phenomena are not so involved as his. They are simpler, and when I am ready to make a full announcement it will be seen that I have proved my conclusions...
...work. Upshot of Pittsburgh Terminal's conference with the union was that last week the company offered work to union miners for the first time in four years. United representatives said that 1,800 men had gone back to Pittsburgh Terminal. National Miners Union, whose wage demands differ very little from those granted United, repudiated the agreement, said that only 350 men had returned to Pittsburgh Terminal's workings, that they had already coaxed some of these away...
Cover-to-cover readers differ as to which cover they begin with. Some start in the middle and work crab-wise...