Word: comparison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book's publication showed the value of Germany's imports of Chilean nitrates to be about $2,500,000, as against a pre-War average of about $41,000,000. In 1928-29, this figure was increased to about $5,000,000. The significance of the comparison made by Dr. Klein and by TIME, however, is not affected by this more recent data, as Germany's exports of synthetic nitrogen have also risen, totaling...
...giant clock atop the Houses of Parliament. His Majesty's Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson revealed in London last week that Big Ben was not only one of the most famed, but, for an old clock, one of the most accurate of timepieces. After a 288-day comparison with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (Astronomer Dyson's special charge) it was found that Big Ben's maximum deviation was only 1.4 sec. per day, that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation did the deviation exceed 1.o sec. No intricate mechanical adjustments...
...Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark's Resolute, both sailed by their owners. There was only one interesting moment-the comparison between Enterprise and Whrlwind on the second tack, the first pointing closer into the wind but Whirlwind showing a fuller mainsail. Enterprise had slipped away in the low breeze like a bird and, running far in the lead, hung over her taffrail in mockery her harbor sign, "Please Keep Astern...
...issue quarterly statements thereafter. Official reason for failure to report was that the recent recapitalization and unification plan by which Radio Corp. took over General Electric and Westinghouse radio manufacturing facilities and in return gave the two utility-equipment companies control of its stock, made impossible a fair comparison between the first quarter of 1930 and the first quarter...
...Dante, to Laforgue, to Swinburne, to Blake, and to a long, long list of other poets. But such clever descriptive phrases as those quoted above from the essays of Mr. De Casseres and Mr. Symons fail to catch the whole man, they fail just as any single attempt at comparison fails. For a true understanding of this most important of all French poets one must turn to his greatest work, "Les Fleurs dn Mal"--a collection of poems in which he himself confessed there was "all my heart, all my affections, all my religion all my hatred." In fine...