Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British arms. For 70 years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service has expired. In comparison with this smooth machine, involving a minimum number of men in training on the British Isles, last week's proposal was revolutionary...
...Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made only by a critic in the year...
Seeing the cost to Cambridge to the proposed project would be exceedingly small--$500,000--in comparison to the advantages that would be gained, there is no possible reason why any intelligent Cantabridgian should not sign the city-wide petition. The project will bring not only jobs which will pay union wages to Cambridge laborers but business to Cambridge merchants as well. It will mean that slum areas which are now rapidly depreciating in value will be rehabilitated. Furthermore, the cost to the city of police, fire protection, health service, and delinquency control will be greatly reduced by the abolition...
According to surveys by Time magazine and reports from the Yale News and Daily Princetonian to the CRIMSON, Yale and Princeton have a tutoring problem unique to American Universities, but small in comparison to Harvard...
...Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta Club shows are the parlor of Harvard dramatic entertainment, the various House plays are certainly the kitchen sink. In comparison, the House plays are poorly mounted, poorly drilled, and poorly east. But therein lies their beauty, the appeal of the dramatic ugly duckling. Somehow the joy of knowing the actors personally, and of watching them blow their lines makes for entertainment which a more professional show cannot offer...