Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the course plans to contrast Harvard with the Universities in Germany under the National Socialistic regime with respect to faculty turnover. Hartshorne is an authority on this subject, having written a book on it quite recently
...Contrast this situation with the one hundred per cent dearth in the East. New England college students never get any closer to drum majorettes than leering at their pictures in "Click." Here is a chance once and for all for Harvard to establish her intellectual supremacy. She can start a movement among the Ivy Colleges which will burn up the league. It might be objected that all-male educational institutions are in a slightly different position from the coed plants of the West, but what about the American Legion...
Sharpest possible contrast to loud, big boned Mr. Fish is Virginia's quiet, studious Clifton Alexander Woodrum. If a composite of typical U. S. businessmen could be assembled and varnished, he might look like Mr. Woodrum. The gentleman from Roanoke is milk-mild about everything but the public debt; only New Deal extravagance burns...
...marked contrast to the A. I. L. the new committee, composed largely of labor and leftist elements, set out to turn "nebulous peace sentiment into an articulate program" by the adoption of a definite policy even at the cost of alienating possible members...
...writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death and deathly stupidity that moved...