Word: differences
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful telecast to France of Queen Elizabeth's coronation ceremonies. France's Jean D'Arcy urged international transmissions on a larger scale last Christmas, but the project was held up by technical difficulties. Not all the problem are solved even now. France and Britain use different standards, and both of them differ from the European norm of a 625-line image. Four "converter" stations have been set up: at Dover, to deal with programs coming into Britain; in Paris, where pictures are converted to the French system; and at Lopik, The Netherlands, and Baden, Germany, where...
...truckers will benefit in several ways. Their insurance and labor costs will go down, since the driver will not be needed on the long railroad hauls, and they will not be hampered by loading laws that differ from state to state. A trucker now operating over the roads between New York and Chicago, for example, must underload his trailer in order to meet the requirements of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Shippers may also profit by lower rates. The cost of shipping by piggyback is estimated at 20? per trailer mile v. about 24? over the road. Furthermore, piggybacking combines the advantages...
...K.K.K. The new Athenians, especially Murchison and Richardson, differ from their brother millionaires in that they do not dabble noisily in politics, propaganda, or welfare institutions. While they stick to business, they have their little luxuries but shun ostentation. Bachelor Richardson lives in the Fort Worth Club, has one of the finest U.S. collections of frontier paintings by Russell and Remington. Murchison shuttles between New York, Washington and a collection of city and country homes in a private DC-3, the Flying Ginny (named for his pretty second wife, Virginia, who accompanies him on many of his trips...
...world's outstanding authorities on the historical relation between a people's theology and its society . . . We anticipate his visit. We introduce a problem of interpretation which concerns us." And what sort of answer comes? "Professor A patiently explains to us that Aristotle's essences differ from Plato's forms, that Origen was an important figure in early Christian philosophy, and that Augustine took the problem of evil seriously...
...sororities provide neither living nor dining facilities, though meetings are held regularly and banquets once or twice during the year. Because the fraternities and sororities differ in what they offer, they differ in importance. A boy is identified to the Middlebury community immediately by the fraternity he is in, but a girl's sorority makes no difference to either girls or boys. In fact, it doesn't matter in the least...