Word: difference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarked that poetry had made a circuit, from sensitivity to sensibility, to tenderness, and finally to humaneness. Here poets differ: some style themselves humanitarians, other anti-humanitarians. He described himself as a "case sympathizer...
...Emperor's best friend. She had been an actress, in the old Burgtheater hard by the Palace grounds. Franz Josef liked her histrionics very much. Reports of their first meeting differ (she was 29, he 49), but it was not long before Käthi's husband, Nikolaus Kiss von Ittebe, had been appointed to a permanent consular post in far-off Morocco, Käthi had been given the not-so-far-off cottage, and wags in the Court guard were referring to their Emperor behind his back as "Herr Schratt...
...this point, "reasonable men may differ." But there can be no disagreement about the desirability of purely cultural productions like tonight's. Those who remember with regret the blackout of German culture which World War I produced might well show their appreciation to the Modern Language Committee by visiting the U. T. tonight, and there's always Barbara Stanwyck...
Although they agree completely and entirely on the end to be achieved--higher education for able young people from all economic classes--Jim and Aubrey differ, at least at first blush, about the type of scholarship aid which should be provided for the able but needy. Youth Administrator Williams asserts that the student who works to earn some of the costs of his education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that...
...lapse was a pardonable one. For the ideas which the National Youth Administrator discussed so ably could hardly have seemed novel or radical to any one who has listened to President Conant's theories of education--or who is at all familiar with what Thomas Jefferson believed. Though they differ on the practical problem of how to pay for that education, Tom, Jim, and Aubrey are in surprising accord when it comes to the kind of schooling and the type of student they think are ideal...