Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light hearted manner in which foreign criticism is received in the land of the Soviets offers a pleasing contrast to the conduct of must nations under similar circumstances. Following the attacks of Representative Fish and Matthew Woll on Red institutions, the Moscow Pravda has recently made the facetious suggestion that America equip a Columbus expedition with caravels in order to find out the truth about the Soviet...
Findings of Fact. In marked contrast to the Commissioners' obscurity of decision was the clarity and completeness of their fact-finding. Not that the Commission discovered anything which honest-minded citizens have not recognized as a fact for years. But the facts were stated fairly for the first time by an official body. Reviewing a decade of Prohibition they found: 1) Enforcement got off to a bad start which has crippled it ever since. 2) Reform organizations like the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. abandoned all efforts to win public support by education and tolerance...
...contrast to working conditions in America, the Berber women do all the heavy labor of grinding meal, churning milk, carrying wood, and making pots by hand, while the husbands content themselves with driving the goats to and from the pasture. "Bedouins of the Sahara," and "Medieval Moderns," which is an intriguing study of the charming simplicity of peasant life on the plains of Hungary, are two other splendid films of this period...
...attractions in the student life of Germany, aside from the pleasures of dueling. In Heidelberg the recent Hitlerite riot against the police brings out the vigor with which the men are willing to support their political opinions. The general apathy of American undergraduates toward national questions offers a marked contrast...
...contrast to German universities is no indication of a lack of intellectual interest among American students. In Germany the universities have had a tradition for interest in national and international affairs since the reorganization of Prussia under Baron Stein in 1808. Extracurricular activities, unknown in the Fatherland, absorb a large percentage of the undergraduate's time in this country, which might be devoted to discussion. Notwithstanding, the attitude of unconcern adopted by college men toward politics and foreign affairs is surprising to those familiar with the more mature outlook of European Universities. This unconcern is exemplified by the meagre interest...