Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rivals. Since he began, he has passed the ex-convict Marion Sayle Taylor (The Voice of Experience) and left his "Good Will" predecessor A. L. Alexander far behind. Mr. Alexander is now running something called the Board of Mediation over Manhattan's WHN, and Mr. Anthony regards any comparison between him and the mediator as preposterous. As a matter of fact, he thinks he is essentially more experienced than most orthodox psychiatrists. "I learn in five minutes," he says, "what it takes them ten years to find...
...special P. E. A. commission, headed by painstaking Wilford Aikin, then headmaster of progressive John Burroughs School in Clayton, Mo., set up an elaborate experiment. Colleges were to admit without examination the graduates of 30 selected progressive high schools. Each of these graduates was to be paired, for comparison, with a graduate of a first-rate conventional school, of the same sex, race, age, intelligence, interests, family background...
...Understand it (Simon & Schuster; $2) is subheaded In spite of the newspapers, In spite of the magazines, In spite of the radio. A practitioner in two of these fields (he is news commentator for WQXR), Howe is critical of all three. Refreshingly fair and accurate (especially in comparison with muckraking books like George Seldes' Lords of the Press), Howe's book is an amusing, gossipy chat about the men and corporations that bring the news to America: their biases, their qualities, their wives. His opinions...
...Germany. Professor Taylor not only admits this, but also protests that his students of medieval France, in answering the Divisional Exam questions, approach the general field of medieval Europe through France alone. They have no time to specialize in more than one country, and therefore have no basis for comparison...
...peaceable observer, war seems to have jumped ahead of the school of the soldier. The pace of battle has been stepped up immeasurably. Airplanes have succeeded trenches as the outstanding factor in modern warfare. The blitzkrieg of today makes the First World War look like a walkathon by comparison...