Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Buick Company and fostered by the University, has reason for being so good; nonetheless, my cars at least were amazed by its technical brilliance. Besides a hair-trigger synchronization, Michigan boasts a set of trumpets which for clarity, bite, and precision are near tops among all college bands. By comparison the Harvard Band sounds dull and over-percussive. It seemed full of the booming of drums and the bleating of clarinets, while the all-important brasses cut through very poorly. Michigan had only a few drums, but these few played the most intricate rhythms with wonderful precision. And when...
...defense of the "third term" and a comparison of the executive abilities of Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie gave 400 Harvard Democratic supporters their first chance for a major demonstration last night at a meeting in Emerson...
...comparison of these figures with last year's is not wholly accurate, as the 1939 group was issued after all transfer students had chosen their fields, where as at present 51 in that classification are still undecided. That their choices should alter to a great extent the figure for any one field is improbable, however...
...looked last week as if two for one was understatement. The R. A. F. had previously boasted that the Ruhr industrial district was pulverized-except for a few blast furnaces which were left as beacons on the highroad to Berlin. But, by comparison with German attacks on Britain, the R. A. F. effort looked pale. One rough day last week the R. A. F. did not go out over Germany at all, yet the Luftwaffe was still in evidence over London. R. A. F. might be more scrupulous, but on the average it could scarcely be more successful than Luftwaffe...
...Most persons think of ballistics as a simple microscopic comparison of a few bullet irregularities with grooves in gun barrels. To Dr. Wadsworth this is "ridiculous." Any two scratches, he claims, can be "matched." He showed his colleagues a case full of slugs of a thousand different shapes, flattened, split, crumpled. Said he: "No two bullets fired from the same gun are ever exactly alike...