Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated 13 castles in Austria belonging to the Prince...
Students recommended by their tutors are placed on Plan B in their Junior or Senior years. The Dean's Office has not record of the Junior Class figures, but it is presumed that there has been a similar reduction in the number of Plan B students in the class...
...same time the League revealed that it had secured the cooperation of 50 colleges in the Midwest under the leadership of Northwestern University and that the possibilities of a nationwide organization have now ben completely realized with the participation of a similar circuit under...
...black and white reproductions-and television cannot yet transmit color-Charles Sheeler's dryly accurate paintings can scarcely be told from his camera studies of similar scenes. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art's show could more readily distinguish between his canvases and photographs, see also his drawings and industrial designs. Stoop-shouldered, scholarly Artist Sheeler, 56, likes to paint barns, skyscrapers, old furniture, factories. All these meet the Sheeler fondness for functionalism. Ignored in his paintings are men and women-inefficient machines capable of measuring the stars...
...sane thought in edgewise." Sometimes within half an hour, often within a day, his brainstorms would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively in bed while racked by his thoughts. These brainstorms, believes Dr. Brickner, are convulsions of ideas, similar to the convulsions of muscles in more ordinary forms of epilepsy. Their discovery lends weight to the theory that the thinking process, in its bare physical foundation, is similar to other bodily processes such as walking or running...