Word: difference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.S.U. first opened as the Michigan Agricultural College, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor was already on its way to becoming the famed institution it is today. But since the Ann Arbor school was modeled upon the universities of the East, its flavor and purpose were bound to differ from those of M.S.U. While Ann Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets...
Hydroplanes, which weigh 105 pounds, differ from the 300 pound utilities in that they have an air tunnel down the bottom of the hull which provides an air lift, and thus less water contact...
Over the Pans. To judge by their manifestoes, the antagonists had few real deep-down issues to differ over. Burned badly by their six-year watch over the hot pans of nationalization, the Laborites are no longer such strident advocates of Marxist Socialism. The once deep-blue Tories, turned pastel by the demands of a new, more progressive generation of Conservatives, have dismantled only a part of the Welfare State (public ownership of the steel and road transport). They have committed themselves to many of the economic and social concepts it was built upon. In foreign policy the two parties...
...Brian saw expediency as the constant enemy of freedom and as the guiding principle of our security system, overshadowing regard for constitutional rights. "Freedom to differ is not to be limited to things that do not matter much," he said, quoting the words of the late Justice Robert Jackson, who was originally scheduled to deliver this year's Godkin Lectures...
...courses also differ considerably from other colleges, Harvard in particular. The one-and-one-half-hour lectures are usually given only once a week and prevent credit for more than half courses running through the year. When the material of a half course corresponds to a whole course in the College, its treatment is inevitably more superficial, lectures indicate...