Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles has its own brand of magnificence. It is amazingly clean, awesomely spacious. It has ramshackle houses, but in comparison with other big cities, no slums. Its great boulevards wind through miles of windblown trees, bright flowers and sweeping, emerald-green lawns. It is a Western town, with the memory of Deadwood and Virginia City in its bones; in its love of display, its detachment from the past and its obsession with its own destiny, it is simply striking the attitude of the gold seeker and the trail blazer...
Unrealistic. The pound exchange rate is now fixed by Britain at $4.03. This rate has long been unrealistic in several senses. The easiest comparison is with free exchange rates in other countries. The pound now sells legally for $3.15 in New York and for $2.92 on the free market in Paris. These bargain pounds, however, cannot be legally taken into Britain (except for a ?5 tourist allowance), and cannot be used in open commercial transactions for British goods. A much better comparison supporting the argument that $4.03 is an unrealistic rate is the fact that $4.03 will buy more...
...area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys, but, until conquered, it would be a thorn in the flesh of Communist China...
...these victories have been at distances under two miles, which theoretically should make tomorrow's four-mile varsity classic an entirely different proposition, defying comparison. However, a long race will improve the Crimson's chances of victory, since stroke Bill Curwen sets a low pace which is especially effective over longer distances...
...Dante prizes have also been announced. Raymond Joel Dorius 6G of Los Angeles won $50 for an essay entitled "The English Reader and Dante's 'Visibile Parlare,'" while Howard Hugh Schless '46 of Philadelphia was awarded a like amount for an essay of 'Melville and Dante: A Structural Comparison...