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...crew of Harvard scrubs provided an interesting comparison: the rowers were nervous before the race, with a count of only 42, but they led the Yale scrubs easily all the way, won by six lengths, and had a relaxed after-race count...
...Macy's Richard Weil Jr.: if competitors matched the cuts, Macy's would slash prices another 6% "quicker than you can say 'knife.'" But Gimbels had its own knife ready. To keep tabs on Macy's, Gimbels set up a GHQ to direct its comparison shoppers, added 287 assistant buyers and its training squad of 43 college students to its staff of a dozen shoppers. From its own GHQ, Macy's spied just as closely...
...Square Garden ring, Williams, who was still earnestly shadow-boxing eight hours before the fight to sweat off the last three-quarters of a pound, looked string-muscled and drawn from the strain of making the weight. Carter, also 27 and a natural lightweight (133 lbs.), looked plump in comparison. And he did not seem to have read the jeering predictions of the sportwriters...
Morrison recalled that during the '30's the committee made a study of all the essays written for a History 1 mid-year exam. The best essay was selected along with the worst, and both were published for comparison in a pamphlet...
Elisseeff advises that anyone who later wants to study in his department should prepare himself with studies of Western culture first to have a basis of comparison...