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Largest and most well-known organization of its kind in the country, the Mountaineering Club has been increasingly active since the end of the war, and future plans call for expeditions and training that will make previous jaunts pale by comparison, according to William L. Putnam '45, secretary of the Club's advisory council...
Said Corwin diffidently of his work: "I hope you'll excuse the pretentious comparison, but I think of the series like Pathfinder planes which precede a raid and light a target. My series may not score a hit, but it may light up an area that has not hitherto been explored. . . . Anyway, it's all there for history, if history is interested...
...experimental part of this work will not be completed immediately. Relationships between last month's findings and aptitude tests as well as a long range comparison with actual professions entered by men who took the test will be the subjects of study by Dyer's office...
...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...