Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrast, Skip Walz, now in his third year as the Yale coach, was an advocate of a high count. Last year the Yales stroked around 40, often going as high as 46. But this year Walz has altered his strategy and pre-race rumor estimates that the Blue will stroke around...
...main purpose of the pyramids was to give lasting protection to Pharaohs' mummies, but the slaves who built them must have seen the pyramids as foursquare symbols of tyranny at its solidest and heaviest. By contrast, the plans for Manhattan's U.N. Secretariat called for lightness, elegance-and fragility. The Secretariat's sky-filled, four-acre walls of windows, which might be shattered by a single bomb blast, would symbolize an optimism unknown to tyrants...
This reaction is in direct contrast to the undergraduate vote, which was more than two to one in favor of permitting Communists to teach, except in the social sciences. The latter tally was 724 to 520 in favor...
...Change. It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between two men. When big, bald Louis Johnson two months ago stepped into James Forrestal's place, control of the nation's second biggest office passed from a wiry, introverted, unpolitical public servant to a 202 lb., hearty, hail-fellow man of action who had been a politician for most of his adult life. By last week the change of command and the change in methods that went with it had sent uneasy rumors and angry charges up & down the 163 miles of corridors in the Pentagon, where...
...contrast to Clague's analysis, a report released this week by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company maintains that, after a slump in February and March, the employment situation for college material is now considerably brighter...