Word: differences
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Juvenis Gerit . . . After 18 years of teaching Latin, Sweet now tries to avoid both these errors by a kind of modified Berlitz system. To give his pupils an idea of what Latin is all about, he starts out with a series of lessons on how languages differ. Soon, students get the idea that they must begin to think in Latin, that they can no longer rely on clues from their knowledge of English...
Scribner denies thesis but admits that the stories show something about writers and readers, at least up to the '30s: "They . . . believed firmly in standards of behavior, in right and wrong, in law and its opposite, disorder. They might differ in particulars, but the great ends of living were common in their thinking; and they were assured that literature, to have meaning, must offer not only a slice of life but a criticism...
...cannot select those areas of the globe in which our policies or wishes may differ from our allies . . . and then say to our allies: 'We shall do what we want here -and where you do what we want, there and only there shall we favor unity.' That is not unity. It is an attempt at dictation. And it is not the way free men associate...
Many of the most alert minds in U.S. medicine were assembled in Atlantic City last week for a give & take on what's new. As usual, much that the researchers had delved for would not make much differ ence to ailing mankind for years to come. But a report to the American Society...
...Brothers. The three Ford broth ers not only differ markedly in looks but in personalities. Henry, now 35, is tall (6 ft.) and plumpish, has an air of casual charm, a ring of earnestness in his voice, and an articulateness that makes him an ideal spokesman for the company. As the grandson of a man whose every pronouncement used to be Page One and free advertising, Henry has worked hard at his own role as the headline-winning industrialist. He has the pragmatic common sense of his grandfather, his father's even temper. Like Old Henry, he reads little...