Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sydney Telegraph rushed Australian Crown Prosecutor Charles Rooney 12,000 miles to London by air to cover the trial with a lawyer's eye. The London Daily Mail hired long-haired Author Peter Quennell, who was obligingly overwhelmed: "By comparison, Crippen was a sentimentalist and Landru† a boastful playboy." Even the dignified London Times gave the story three full columns...
...possibly a bellwether of how good "normal" might be. G.E.'s President Charles Wilson reported a second-quarter net of $19.8 million, down 32% from the same 1948 period. However, profit was more than 100% above G.E.'s earnings of ten years ago. By such a prewar comparison, the current "recession" looked fairly prosperous...
Reviewing Cardus, the Guardian was moved to a flattering comparison: "Where would Homer's gods and heroes ... be without Homer...
Like The Track of the Cat (TIME, June 6), Hunter's Horn invites the inevitable comparison with Herman Melville and his classic tale of Captain Ahab's pursuit of Moby Dick. That Melville's influence can be dangerous is shown in this case by the fact that Nunn Ballew's chase of King Devil has little of the intensity of Ahab's passionate quest after the white whale. In the end, the hunting down of the great fox is only an interruption in the more interesting story of a family's fight...
...Most companies seemed to be just about holding their own, in comparison with 1948 figures...