Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common crisis, Hearst's News-Post closed ranks with the rival Sunpapers, recalled that in 1936 the Supreme Court had outlawed a similar law that Huey Long created in Louisiana to curb his opposition. Advertisers and agencies warned that the mayor's proposals would cripple the city's economy, drafted a crash program to carry their case to the people before the D'Alesandro-dominated city council debates the bill this week...
...passes between a capsule of strontium 90 and a radiation counter. If the thickness varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today all the major rubber companies use these "AccuRay" gauges at a saving of $20 million annually. With similar apparatus rolling mills can control the thickness of steel, and the manufacturers of aluminum, paper, plastics, glass, cigarettes use isotope gauges to police the quality, thickness and density of their products...
...pattern has been similar in all the beatings. A local youth would be walking the streets alone at night. Suddenly he would find himself surrounded by five or six other youths. Then he would be beaten to the ground...
Several local youths indicated this morning that two or three similar beatings have been perpetrated at sporadic intervals over the past year and a half, though none has been so serious as this last...
Another suggestion, reportedly made by the Administration, urges that the Honors program itself be considered "a prize" for which competent students might "compete." A proposed form of competition is a qualifying examination, similar to the one given junior concentrators in History and Literature, or History...