Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London stores officials gloomed, "trade is far below normal." The forehanded British toy trade offered numerous war toys, in sharp contrast to shortage in Germany, some remarkably expensive. Example: the Maginot Line, completely equipped, ten pounds...
...Prissy 's (Butterfly McQueen) singing of Jes' a Few Mo' Days, Ter Tote de Weery Load. There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning sky at Tara while he propounds to her the meaning...
Meanwhile, in ironic contrast, Cleveland's businesses were booming towards 1929 levels. Yet the city could not tax to raise funds for relief without empowering legislation from the State General Assembly. And Governor John W. Bricker refused to convene the Assembly...
...around the undemocratic "bicker week" method of "formal interview" and election. Ziegler says. The 20 per cent who are left out of this "major part of the pleasant routine life of the Junior and Senior year" are too small a group to make their self-conscious situation bearable, in contrast to the "social security offered by the House plan at Yale and Harvard...
...part this contrast may be due to screwy statistics (the production index is heavily weighted by certain industries), but in large part it represents technological improvements. For if improved machinery increases output per man, it is perfectly possible to have bigger production and bigger unemployment at the same time. Two examples of this can be found in two of the U. S.'s biggest employers: motors and steel. In 1937 motormakers bought connecting rod grinders that stepped up production from 250 to 850 units an hour, a machine for bending window-finish strips by which a five-man team...