Word: versus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would cost him only 61? less than if he had bought the serviced equivalent. The food industry points out that the extra costs of "conveniencing" foods can be considered the expense of maid service. Says Charlie Mortimer: "If you compute the relative costs of the two types of meals versus the time spent by the housewife, the housewife is getting the services of a maid for 45? an hour. My sons pay teen-age baby sitters more than that...
...they were two years ago. At that time a School Committee issue concerning 17 controversial appointments stirred the CCA virtually to demand that the education of the city's children not be subject to personal political feuds. In 1957, there at least was an issue of the "ins" versus the "outs...
...summers, he occupied first oboe position at Interlachen, famed music camp in Michigan--"my love of music derived from my experience there"--and after his freshman year at Harvard, he attended the Eastman Conservatory for a summer. "I then had great doubts about the value of a University versus a conservatory education for a musician. But I finally decided the University education was better than the conservatory...
Hypnosis can motivate subjects to perform extraordinary feats of endurance and strength, but appropriate motivation in the wake state, if properly applied, can also increase the physical capacity of the subject. In an experiment designed to test the effect of hypnosis versus that of motivation on the physical capacity, Dr. Orne had hypnotized subjects hold a kilogram weight at arm's length. They were told that their arm was resting on a table (hallucinated) and that they could feel no discomfort in it. They were asked to hold the weight as long as possible without dropping it or lowering their...
...Homogeneous" groupings versus "heterogeneous" groupings is one of the major issues in junior and senior high schools today. Homogeneous groups are those which are composed of students of approximately the same academic ability and industry; heterogeneous grouping results from the grouping of students with different social and academic backgrounds in order to achieve a representative cross section in each class...