Word: different
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took just seven hours for Prosecutor Knight to restate his case. It did not differ from the one his father, as a State Supreme Court Justice, had previously upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested...
...Members differ emphatically on the correct pronunciation of the society's name, classicists holding out for the pure Greek Phee Bayta Kahppa, the 0 B K Senate insisting on the completely Anglicized Phy Beeta Kappa. To the disgust of purists on both sides of the fence, the National Council seems to be on the verge of authorizing the common hybrid Phy Bayta Kappa...
Firewalking is a common practice in India, in the South Sea Islands, in the Shinto temples of Japan. Explanations of how it is done differ widely. But the performance in Surrey made news on two continents because it was done under the eye of scientists who came with thermometers as well as skepticism...
...inspecting it at a private showing (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week's trial in Manhattan was to determine whether Federal authorities had a right to confiscate and destroy the film. Said U. S. District Judge John C. Knox, charging the jury: "The standards of the forests of Africa differ from those of certain European countries...." A jury of bored business men watched a screening, deliberated 35 minutes, decided that Extase was too dirty for U. S. cinemaddicts...
...happen to admire Mr. Auslander's work very much indeed. On that point opinions may differ, as they differ in regard to every writer. But certainly his work is head and shoulders above the rank and file of those writing verse in this country. Moreover, he has preserved both honesty of intention and vigorous independence as a craftsman. Yet to your many readers he is presented almost in the role of a charlatan...