Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American radio clearly offers its listeners more than any other radio in the world. No other system is comparable in number of transmissions or variety of programs, and only BBC broadcasts can often bear comparison for quality...
...Negro Americans to all white Christians, Historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote (in his monumental work-in-progress, A Study of History): "The Negro appears to be answering our tremendous challenge with a religious response which may prove in the event, when it can be seen in retrospect, to bear comparison with the ancient Oriental's response to the challenge from his Roman masters. . . . Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world not to confirm...
...market place, peddlers with heavy loads along the roads, the dogtrot of the carrier with his load on his back, a merchant on his way to the next village. . . . I had a long talk with a Republican leader whom I'd known in Holland. He used the comparison with water in the course of freezing. Consolidation, he said, is like water that freezes on top; there are large stretches where one can walk over in safety because the ice is thick and strong. There are parts where one can walk, but hear the threatening sound of cracking, and there...
...reviewing, and a more productive and united theatrical community. Until then, in the face of this snide, double-barreled hypocrisy, The "embattled" Harvard Dramatic Club will go right on doing its best, all the while hoping some day in the not too distant future for a review of fair comparison. Craig Gilbert...
...present theatrical season, which has seen virtually every major dramatist represented by a work in production or in preparation, witnessed the arrival of a fine new musical comedy at the Opera House last week. Recent musical comedy productions have, without exception, suffered by comparison with the unforgettable "Oklahoma!", and "Twilight Alley," the new Duke Ellington-John Latonche play, provides no variation from the general rule. 'In contrast to the many anemic and warstarved musicals which have cluttered up the glitterdust circuit in recent years, however, it is a lusty, healthy show, brilliantly staged, with an excellent score and fine...