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...those who laughed heartily when a U. S. Lieutenant wrote you from Balboa (TIME, April 5) to complain that you had referred to a U.S. common sailor as "insignificant" in comparison with H. R. H. the Crown Prince of Sweden [TIME, Feb. 15, SWEDEN...
...Heaven's Sake. Harold Lloyd's films are simply matters of comparison. All of them are funny and some of them are funnier than others. This one tells the adventures of a rich young man who. in trying to shed a few millions, found himself promoting a mission for down-and-outers. Mr. Lloyd has done better pictures; there are only three or four comedians that could possibly do as good a one as this...
...conservative in him, one's pleasure to find that the former president of Amherst has really departed very little from policies for educational development already conceived, and in some cases practiced by the faculty and student body of Harvard! Indeed even the most casual reading of this article forces comparison with the Report of the Student Council's Committee on Education. For in many respects that report suggests a similar attempt to maintain the traditional facilities for the acquisition of culture and the development of intelligence while yet admitting the existence of progressive and often anti-cultural tendencies...
...Italian Debt Settlement, in a speech closely paralleling that made at Philadelphia by Secretary Mellon. He appealed for Senate ratification on the grounds that "Italy is one of our best customers." He scotched any expectation that France will get as lenient terms: "There is no comparison between the two debts, and I want to assure the Senators now personally that no such settlement will ever be made with France as has been made with Italy." Simultaneously with Mr. MelIon's address, the Chancellor of the British Exchequer was speaking upon the same subject (see COMMONWEALTH...
...whole brain looks like a dirty, wetted newspaper crumpled up and patted into somewhat the shape of a rounded bun. Another comparison might be to a lobsided mushroom, for the bottom of the brain runs into a sort of stalk, which is the spine...