Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industrial Crisis. Last week, due to the higher cost of francs, U. S. importers canceled large orders for French laces. Steel importers canceled so many orders that the Cartel d'Acier (French Steel Trust) cut production scales to 2,000 tons monthly from 10,000 tons. Similar curtailments in other lines threw some 30,000 Frenchmen out of work during the past month...
...reading this statement, sniffed, spat, quoted a statement, issued to the press under similar circumstances by Mr. Tunney's predecessor, John L. Sullivan. "I'll fight any - of a - with two fists, any place, any time, for a good cigar. . . . All the training I need is a haircut and a shave...
...Bonaventure's is as little concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew up, is of a similar unworldliness - perhaps a thought too Arcadian since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real monks Mr. Shuster has wrought an atmosphere of which the charm is quite...
...Confidential Guide, as such, may be considered as communications from the editors of the CRIMSON. In all fairness, the columns should be, and are, thrown open to similar criticism from all members of the University who either agree or disagree with the treatment of courses in the Confidential Guide...
...There is nothing similar to Harvard's magnificent business center. No other American university has anything like it. It is complete in every detail and surpassingly beautiful. Am I being facetious when I say that all it lacks is a golf course...