Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week existence, Quincy House has received praise for its construction--of the $4.7 million new part. By contrast, Mather Hall, beautiful in its day, has now become second-rate. Without such "necessities" as elevators, private study-bedrooms, or large plate glass windows, the 27-year-old building holds little appeal. Quincy students consequently do not relish the thought of moving into Mather when this facility officially becomes part of Quincy next fall...
...contrast with Stalin's lack of concern with living standards, Khrushchev has attempted to solve these problems. "From my own and other people's conversations with the Russians, I think they are impressed by what has been achieved lately," Bergson comments...
Automatic Developer. On signal from the earth, both cameras began taking pictures on 35-mm. film that had been carefully protected from the fogging effect of cosmic rays. Exposures were automatically varied from frame to frame to make sure of some negatives with good contrast. As soon as the film was shot, it passed into a developing and fixing device that was specially designed to function properly under conditions of weightlessness. After being dried, the film went into a case to wait for transmission to earth. Some of this operation was automatic, but marks on the moving film, the Russians...
...Lawrence campus, there is ample evidence of intellectual activity. In the dining hall that serves Sarah Lawrence's 400 students, conversations hew to the intellectual rather than the social. This year's freshman play, written by students, is a satire on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," a striking contrast to the fraternity-sorority skits that are the rule on many of the nation's campuses...
...contrast were needed to current irresponsible demands in the United States to increase trade restrictions, it would be provided by Britain's recent decision to do the reverse...