Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book, written by an Italian of the sixteenth century, describing the story of the nativity is placed in a case beside Milton's poem "On the Morning of the Nativity" offering an interesting contrast in the literature of two nations and two centuries. Several reproductions from the Book of Hours of Joan 11, Queen of Navarre, offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings...
...history is to be readily comprehended, the mastery of regional geography is of prime necessity; one is naturally the direct complement of the other. Yet, whereas history is read and inwardly digested by scholars in all walks of life, geographical truths, which in contrast ring out their utter simplicity, are sadly neglected. Perhaps it is because of their relatively simple nature that they are regarded as unimportant for maturer minds; when one becomes a man, one must put away childish things...
...Balance-of-Trade"-ratio of exports over imports-remained favorable. The export margin amounted, in merchandise, to some $731,000,000-about the same as in the last seven years. Gold exports, also, were heavy in 1928, in contrast to the heavy influx of gold in 1927. This indicated a general fortifying of the buying power of U.S. customers...
...Viking. Although the odd, no-colored daylight of the camera suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even...
These modern advertisements contrast strongly with the old-time posters which are hung on the walls of the same room. The latter are merely printed information of a very brief nature...