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...modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...
...Darling Clementine (20th Century-Fox) is horse opera for the carriage trade. Directed by John Ford, who made the smashingly successful Stagecoach eight years ago, the new picture invites comparison to that old near-classic. And Clementine does indeed closely resemble Stagecoach. Nonetheless it is a rattling good movie full of gusto, gunplay and romance...
...careful comparison of the course roster and the masthead of today's paper should show no coincidences...
...cursory comparison of the list of winners and the original slate of nominations shows a marked parallel between position on the ballot and success in the election, a parallel that dramatizes student apathy toward the Council, and at the same time exposes the weakness of the Council in managing all the interlocking ramifications which go into the administration of a democratic election...
Contents: a devout essay in praise of the Virgin Mary; a comparison of the two worlds represented by Rockefeller Center and its neighbor, St. Patrick's Cathedral; an amateurish satire on the totalitarian state; two denunciations of modern materialism. A reactionary point of view pervades the sharp, provocative piece, "Are You Ashamed of the Gospel?", which pulls Catholics up short for yielding to liberal influences, for forgetting that separation of church & state, freedom of worship & speech, freedom of conscience on religious revelation have special and limited meanings for Catholics...