Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company properly incorporated in the U. S. but financed and owned by the Russian Soviet Government. Except that it is the Soviets' purchasing agent in the U. S., its financial relations to that government is similar to the relations of the Emergency Fleet Corp. to the U. S. Government...
...costume like the one he wore when he was the cousin of a living Tsar. Then the director sends the sad actor, once more a gaudy captain, into a mock battle. Leading Hollywood soldiers across a fabricated battlefield, the Russian nobleman forgets pretense. After relieving for a moment a similar scene in his remembrance, General Dolgorucki dies, not in pretense but in actuality, on his lips the ironic question of a disabled college athlete...
...process by which Belvedere facsimiles are produced is a carefully guarded secret. In outline, it consists of a combination of photography succeeded by a chemical process which echoes, to microscopic detail, upon a similar material and in most cases a surface of the same size, the colors of the original. The effect, while it has none of the impersonal cold quality of a copy or print, misses being a duplicate of its original by the same distinction that makes a phonographic reproduction, however much perfected, not necessarily inferior to but indubitably different from its model. Facsimiles are not however intended...
Team B is now in fourth place in the standing of class B teams in the tournament. The Freshman team is occupying a similar place in the standing of Class C teams. The Freshman players, with the exception of their first contest, have a string of unbroken victories to their credit...
...study of the signal strength of radio reception in connection with sun-spot observations. The study revealed that there was a definite correlation between the appearance of spots on the sun's surface and the conditions of radio reception. The new machine, by means of a device that is similar to a weather graph, can measure the amount of change that takes place in the signal strength of radios during the sun-spot cycle...