Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, the British censorship last week released for the first time (more than two months after they were taken) photographs made by Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes over Germany. For clarity and detail they suffered by comparison with what Germany has shown of its air views of Great Britain (TIME...
...considered the best in the world. Supposedly unrecapturable is the secret of the Cremona makers-whether it was construction, shape, wood or varnish. Professor Frederick Albert Saunders, Harvard physicist, has long been making a scientific analysis of the tone quality and playing performance of Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins in comparison with the best modern instruments. Last week, in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, he published his findings...
...could probably never be duplicated, authorities stated. Many of the books will never again be on the market. Its availability here will be of particular value not only to scholars interested is the history of German literature and art, but also to students of the Renaissance interested in the comparison of trends in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was explained
...overlooked in such calculations is another comparison. In 1916 Germany, fighting at Verdun and the Somme, burned up every day more materials than in the entire Franco-Prussian war. So far in this war Germany has fought only an in expensive Polish campaign, some minor air and sea battles. Germany's income may be as small as in 1916, but so far her expenses are far smaller...
...different majority (Republicans Healy and Mathews dissenting) drew a moral from too much fixed charge financing by the railroads; admitted that Consumers would undoubtedly be able to meet the proposed interest and dividend bill; nevertheless pointed out that bond instead of common stock financing would aggravate Consumers' unfavorable comparison with other top-notch operating units.* Finding equity financing feasible, the majority decision disallowed the $10,000,000 of new debt financing. But the Commission emphasized that it wasn't telling Consumers it had to sell its common to Otis or any one else, in fact left Consumers free...