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...divided by 1,000 publications equals $27,189.37 in any schoolboy's arithmetic. This figure includes administrative costs. The cost per word of the State Guides was admittedly high by comparison with other types of books-particularly because of the staggering research job involved...
...raid, small in comparison with day & night attacks on England in 1940 and 1941, was by way of retaliation for the two poundings the R.A.F. had given Berlin. About 125 fighter-bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 190Fs, crossed the coast at Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital...
...hesitate calling the electron microscope as it is a magnificent instrument. In view of future developments, however, it has to be admitted at the same time, that with respect to its lenses in their present state, no more favorable comparison can be made than with the microscope as it was at the time of Leeuwenhoek...
...worthy though they may prove, they inevitably pale by comparison with what Joseph Stalin...
...size of the Army's job can be scaled by comparison with the Navy's smaller job at Guadalcanal. Marine screams could be heard from the Solomons to Washington because no mail came during the first two beleaguered months on Guadalcanal. More recently letters and packages have been arriving and the island has its post office...