Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time a three man Council team will square off before NBC-TV cameras against a similar Army team in a discussion of the comparative advantages and disadvantages of education at West Point as opposed to education at a liberal arts college...
...that should not be given up. But the Hygiene Department has given no conclusive reasons why the permanent staff at Stillman could not be reduced, while Med School internes filled in during the rare emergencies. Chicago and Pennsylvania have managed to slice the costs of health protection by a similar use of medical staffers whose main job is not the care of students...
...public that she really could sing top D flat herself. "But sometimes," she confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording, had approved the whole affair. Wrote a reviewer...
While this and similar problems (such as the proposed movement to ultra high frequencies) are threshed out, TV will mark time. The 37 existing stations will continue telecasting; 87 others, with construction permits, may build if they choose; 303 applications for stations are to be frozen for the time being. This means that many a U.S. city which had looked forward to TV within the year will have to wait another year-or longer...
...similar vision came to Merton during a Mass in 1940 at Havana: "It was so intangible, and yet it struck me like a thunderclap ... It disarmed all images, all metaphors, and cut through the whole skein of species and phantasms with which we naturally do our thinking ... [It was] far above and beyond the level of any desire or any appetite ... It left a breathless joy and a clean peace and happiness that stayed for hours, and it was something I have never forgotten...