Word: dissimilarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience was just the opposite. On July 5, 1929 I arrived on a liner from France with some trepidation and three full-sized and ten small-sized bottles of liquor. My method of attack was the same as that of Mrs. Robbins, but the outcome was entirely dissimilar. After regaining his breath after my declaration (oral, by the way) of the 13 bottles contained in my luggage, the customs official merely said: "Tell me which suitcase they are in so that I can miss them." I still have the bottles (empty now) to back up my story...
...professorial chair. The dismissal of the president of the University of Michigan is notorious, and as unfortunate, even if unavoidable, as it is notorious. Investigations, too, made by the Governor and his associates of Missouri of the conduct of the president of its university bear memories of not dissimilar investigations made of the conduct of his professorial associates. These and other unique instances prove the importance of a more general understanding and of a deeper appreciation on the part of all university officers of the conditions which belong to their great officers...
...that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally led to the law's repeal as a failure and South Carolina's movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were "not dissimilar" to national conditions now. His remedy: "I would get a group of men on the Wet side to sit down with a group of men on the Dry side to meet this situation in a constructive moving way. . . . To date the law has not had a fair chance. We need...
...House Plan follows the Harvard system, it is not only calculated to make Joe Yale a brighter, but a more social lad. Although many an alumnus is loath to admit it, the organization of Yale today is strikingly dissimilar to that of Old Yale. A strong basis of Yale college life has been the class. When classes were counted in scores, the spirit of comradeship and the spirit of college tradition went hand in hand. Classmates, knowing each other by name and nickname, gayly did battle against other classes, drank beer at Mory's together, crowded the Fence...