Word: differences
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper valuation of good will, know-how and other intangibles. In all such calculations, as the University of Chicago's Professor Roy Blough, now a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, pointed out two years ago, "Any two persons or groups of persons ... might differ by perhaps as much as 20 to 50% with neither provably more right than the other . . . Gross discrimination [is] inevitable...
...This is the one billboards and match covers have been booming as "A most unusual motion picture," a statement I won't dispute. But when the ads go on to peg it as a certain successor to "The Lost Weekend" in the Oscar department, then I must beg to differ...
...Those who "question whether angels are personal beings, and whether matter and spirit differ essentially...
...intended to draw spectators . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away?" Twenty years before public hangings were finally abolished (in 1868), Charles Dickens begged to differ: "I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the crowd . . . could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under...
...much do these "ethnic groups" differ in intelligence? Not much, if at all, says the UNESCO report. "Given similar degrees of cultural opportunity to realize their potentialities, the average achievement of each ethnic group is about the same. The scientific investigations of recent years fully support the dictum of Confucius [551-478 B.C.]: 'Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart...