Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reassuring to know that the United States can send a satellite, albeit a diminutive sphere in comparison to the Russian planet, around the sun. It is not so heartening to read about the snafu which resulted in "losing" the mute and more mundane "Discoverer I," the first polar satellite...
...exchange is designed to stimulate comparison of different educational systems. Sarah Lawrence emphasizes small seminars and has few or no exams, while the University of Massachusetts and Swarthmore represent compromises between the seminar and lecture systems...
While in England, Price first became interested in the problems of the civil service career system--a question he was still exploring in a Gov 130 lecture this month. His thesis for the B. Litt. degree was a comparison of the constitutional, administrative, and sociological roles of the British administrative class of civil servant with that of its American counterpart...
...freshman defense forms the weakest part of the squad, although it suffers from comparison with the top-notch attack. With three high-scoring lines, the freshmen may fit in quite well next year, since the varsity has a promising defense combination in two sophomores, Bob Anderson and Greg Downes, and junior Mike Graney...
Aparajito will probably be weighed in the balance with Pather Panchali and found slightly wanting. But such a comparison misses the point: as the second movement in a composition, Aparajito is meant to express the consequences of the first movement, Father Panchali, and to prepare the mood of the third movement, Apu Jagat ("The World of Apu"), which will probably be released in the U.S. in late 1959. In a pictorial sense the film lacks something of the noble simplicity of Father Panchali, but if its images are more sophisticated, they are no less brilliant and effective. What is perhaps...