Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Yale game ticket sales slumped yesterday as sophomores took only one and a half sections in comparison with the three sections grabbed by seniors and two by juniors. '53 got most of its seats in section 28 on the 5 yard line, where alumni usually...
...Larz Anderson Bridge and Soldiers Field will seem strangely deserted this afternoon during the football team's only game away of the fall, but few students from Cambridge appear to be making the trip to New Jersey, in comparison...
...made everything else at the Salon des Tuileries last week look either timid or oldfashioned; it was a direct challenge to the aging moderns who have so long shaped French art. By its size, its dull coloring and its air-war theme, the picture was clearly intended to invite comparison with Picasso's famous canvas of the Spanish civil war, Guernica. Lorjou is no admirer of his elder. "Picasso is called a god," he storms. "In reality he is a monster...
...classrooms across the U.S. one day in 1901, close to 1,000 high-school seniors sat down to write in their bluebooks the answers to such questions as: "What are the main lines of Macaulay's comparison of Milton with Dante? . . . Define archon, ephor, demagogue, dicastery, tyrant . . ." These were the first questions, and the boys & girls were the first guinea pigs of a new testing institution: the College Entrance Examination Board...
When another orchestra plays in the home of the Boston Symphony it is natural to draw some comparison between the two. The immediately striking difference is that the Royal Philharmonic has almost perfect balance. Although the Boston Symphony is a great orchestra it is well known that its brass section plays too loudly. Whenever the first trumpeter for Boston aims his trumpet at the roof and lets go, everyone in the Hall hears him above the orchestra. No comparable incident occurred yesterday afternoon...