Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A debater from the Oxford University who toured this country recently sat through an American football game and came away with the impression that whereas the British treat war as a sport, the Americans treat sports as a war. Since the Englishman had only been in this country for a...
(# Princeton and Harvard figures are in terms of active committees, whereas Yale and Dartmouth figures include individuals as well as groups)
Munro was particularly surprised that Hudner, considered the best attackman in the Northeast, should have been named to play on the midfield. Hudner's forte is his playmaking and dodging behind the cage, whereas midfielders work the ball up and down the field.
With his newly acquired knowledge Chauvel set up school in Rouen, taught his workmen to use old-style hand tools instead of mechanical saws in stonecutting. Thus, the new stone has the finely granulated look of the original. "This kind of surface softly reflects the light," said a Rouen expert...
Electrons in the Raw. Meanwhile, the doctors are trying something new with the betatron. Previously they used it in a roundabout way-shooting a stream of electrons against a platinum target, which produced X rays, and then aiming the X rays into the patient's cancer. The new technique...