Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint concert with the Yale Band, similar to the one held last year, has also been tentatively scheduled for this spring...
Perhaps not a majority, or even a significant minority of Harvardmen came to this school to watch Williams play baseball, but there are a few. Their general reaction is similar to that of Johnny Pesky: "I feel awful...
...Prince discussed the question of space controls at some length and suggested that either the United Nations should set up space laws or a system similar to the present laws governing the high seas should be established...
Though actually a model T compared to future reactors, its pressurized (2,000 Ibs. per sq. in.) water reactor is similar to the safe, older model that drives the atomic submarine U.S.S. Nautilus. To make absolutely sure that no radioactive water ever escapes, its 100,000 ft. of pipes are linked by 20,000 welds, each checked by X ray and coded to tell which worker made it on what date. The ordinary safeguards against the escape of radioactive rays are backstopped by the 5-ft.-thick walls of the plant...
...private slave factory by Belgium's King Leopold II, captured his horrified attention. It was a time before Europe knew itself capable of Belsen, and Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar reports for the British Foreign Office about cruel treatment of rubber-plantation workers in Peru. By now, Casement had become a romantic celebrity with something of Byron about him. He was knighted by King George V, and he wrote a fulsome letter of gratitude to Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey about...