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...teach the New York Yankees baseball. . . . They think nothing of sending hundreds of planes into the night air, no matter how bad flying conditions are. I've spent nights in London during some of the worst raids and I've spent some in Moscow. There is no comparison. The Nazis simply don't get through this wall of superfire put up by the Soviets...
...Your comparison of the Neutrality Act with the 18th Amendment (TIME, June 2) is a master stroke...
...Probably the most useful tool for research since the discovery of the microscope" was described in detail last week by Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton of the University of California. The tool he referred to is the use of radioactive elements, and his comparison was apt. Whereas the microscope makes visible aspects of living tissue which cannot be seen with the naked eye, the use of radioactive elements as tracers makes it possible to learn what becomes of elements taken into a living organism as food, to study the intricate mechanics of metabolism in living plants and animals...
...simplest comparison of the three materialists is made in Barzun's chapter, The Triumph of the Absolute...
...fair comparison with last year's crew at this time in the season can be made, as last year the Freshmen didn't row the mile and three-quarters. But looking back to 1938 and 1939, we find that the times were 8:58 and 9:00, while this year's best is 9:05, all of which means that the Class of '44 is only about a length and a half of two lengths slower than its predecessors...