Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Catiett Marshall, Secretary of State and former Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Doctor of Laws. Citation: "An American to whom Freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
Early this year Kroger officials went to see Bracy about putting a ceiling on his earnings. Bracy said no. When Kroger insisted, he quit. He retired to his hotel room. Since then, Kroger officials have refused to issue for comparison the sales, or pay, of the man who took over Bracy's job in Carbondale. Bracy was a subject Kroger would just as soon forget...
...thus accept the fact that they hunt each other to the death are not to be expected to bury the hatchet except in each other's necks. Americans who talk coalition with the Communists sound to the Chinese a little like the late General Patton's unhappy comparison of the German Nazi v. anti-Nazi struggle with the rivalry between U.S. Democrats and Republicans...
While the comparison is not exact, few could deny that Economics A could be made more palatable. A less careful attitude toward technicalities and a broader study of problems would create the atmosphere which the government of history concentrator now misses, while his knowledge of the field would have perspective of not detail. Supposing the economics major needs the present burdensome facts and formulae he might well be satisfied by a future Economics B Which Will preserve for concentrators only the syllabus, the mathematical analysis and other bits of precision. The present course is poorly suited to a large group...
...year-old blonde finds no comparison between the Harvard man and the typical fruit of a Yale education. "There's quite a difference between the men up here and those few Bulldogs whom we see nosing around our campus," she reports, hastening to add that the change to the Cambridge clime is all for the better...