Word: dissimilarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lafayette Flying Corps pilot during the War, he launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none of them afterwards could adjust themselves to normal living...
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of Nash's poetry is the novel way in which he obtains like sounds from very dissimilar words. He is not above making major orthographical changes in a word in order to achieve versification. He says, for example...
...capable and well trained. Nor do I intimate that the judges were consciously unfair. But when young men grow impassioned about the ideology and the problems of today, conservative scholars from another age should never be recruited for the task of judging. Their ideals must be so jarringly dissimilar that any true impartiality is at least unlikely...
Snooty critics are accustomed to laugh out loud at the work of aged Artist Waugh: 1) because it is limited almost entirely to realistic paintings of surf, and 2) because his surf pictures are "all alike." Although Artist Waugh paints the sea as it looks from not greatly dissimilar rocks near his Cape Cod home, sympathetic critics find his paintings no more nor less alike than the inexhaustible aspects of ocean water. In eschewing all human subjects for the sea, F. J. Waugh is actually akin to abstractionists like Georges Braque, winner of the Carnegie first prize this year (TIME...
...situation today is not dissimilar. First it was Russia,--and the repercussions of the Bolshevik revolution are with us yet. Then it was the failure of parliamentary government to maintain itself in Italy. Next came the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany, and now we witness actual warfare with all its barbarism in Spain. Finally we have seen the hopes of peace through collective security appear to fade and now the threat of rearmament hangs over all of Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension...