Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
...required the 10? fictioneers to begin their lusty shockers. Author Pearson has collected prize examples of this U. S. phenomenon. The matter he quotes is alone worth the price. It is set out chronologically with a running commentary that, oddly enough, sometimes berates the authors, sometimes exalts them by comparison with today's literary idols...
...friendly athletic relations with those other teams has broadened the whole outlook on sports. It is not too strange to think that at future time, when severed bonds with Princeton have been spliced, the meaning of victory over Yale will have lost still more of its single significance in comparison with all the events of an entire season...
Yale's 1929 eleven will trot out on to the Stadium turf this afternoon a slight favorite over Captain Barrett's Crimson-jerseyed gridiron cohorts. The basis for the Eli's supposed superiority is rather a comparison of previous records than any firm conviction among Yale rooters that the New Haven contingent is actually much stronger than the Cambridge outfit...
...reach of the Harvard goal posts. The result was a clear-out-Yale victory. In 1927, Yale, with an infinitely stronger team than Harvard was only able to score on a couple of long brilliant individual runs. Last year she was completely outplayed. What is the purpose of this comparison. Merely to point out that Yale has in Booth one of the best drop-kickers in the country this season, and that Harvard has at least two who compare very favorably even with him. Also to point out that all Harvard needed to win the Michigan game was three points...