Word: comparison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brien, with nose pushed left, gives an entertaining but not convincing performance as "Knute Rockne--All-American." Only Ronald Reagen sparks the picture as George Gipp, Rock's greatest player. His sincere death bed histrionics make the flabby sentimentality of the last quarter of the picture worse by comparison...
...Buick Company and fostered by the University, has reason for being so good; nonetheless, my cars at least were amazed by its technical brilliance. Besides a hair-trigger synchronization, Michigan boasts a set of trumpets which for clarity, bite, and precision are near tops among all college bands. By comparison the Harvard Band sounds dull and over-percussive. It seemed full of the booming of drums and the bleating of clarinets, while the all-important brasses cut through very poorly. Michigan had only a few drums, but these few played the most intricate rhythms with wonderful precision. And when...
...defense of the "third term" and a comparison of the executive abilities of Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie gave 400 Harvard Democratic supporters their first chance for a major demonstration last night at a meeting in Emerson...
...comparison of these figures with last year's is not wholly accurate, as the 1939 group was issued after all transfer students had chosen their fields, where as at present 51 in that classification are still undecided. That their choices should alter to a great extent the figure for any one field is improbable, however...
...looked last week as if two for one was understatement. The R. A. F. had previously boasted that the Ruhr industrial district was pulverized-except for a few blast furnaces which were left as beacons on the highroad to Berlin. But, by comparison with German attacks on Britain, the R. A. F. effort looked pale. One rough day last week the R. A. F. did not go out over Germany at all, yet the Luftwaffe was still in evidence over London. R. A. F. might be more scrupulous, but on the average it could scarcely be more successful than Luftwaffe...