Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compares the presidency of a college to the presidency of the United States . . . . . . . . Certainly English A or some similar course back in the nineties must have taught Mr. Bartlett the theory and practice of correct analogy. The presidency of the college requires cultural qualities with ability to judge scholars and teachers, and to guide the teaching systems of a university...
...revelation of the degree of intolerance, the unscientific absolutist dictatorship of religious feeling, of the legislators and people of Tennessee in the Scopes Trial. It was an example of unassailable belief which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable right of any citizen...
Because General George Washington fought the Revolutionary War to a smart finish, Americans thought he would make a good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...
...FRONT PAGE?"Goose him," "can." "fairy" and similar pressroom technicalities add to the speed of a dazzling play (TIME, June...
...these graduates. The Council is an organization founded in the college and now in its third year of existence, which devotes its activity to the raising of unrestricted money of which President Eliot once said no University ever had enough. It has been founded on the precedent of similar organizations in other universities, Yale having had a fund for 37 years, Cornell for 19, and Dartmouth...