Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...resignation of the greater part of our Ambassadors. Statistics have been compiled showing that, with one exception, none of the diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great Britain and France filling similar positions had back of them an average record of twenty years, diplomatic experience...
Holberg's comedy has a present and universal interest in addition to its lively, entertaining qualities. Lord Dunsany's play offers a wide contrast to the other, representing the genius of today as opposed to the genius of yesterday
...game which takes place in the Stadium represents an interesting contrast to the game which Harvard played 45 years ago against McGill University. This game, played on Jarvis Field in May, 1874, was the first intercollegiate contest under Rugby rules. It resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest, owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that day, that "under...
...contrast to the work of the Yale team as a whole and of certain individuals, Kempton's splendid performance stood out in strong contrast. Whatever the critics of Yale said about her team they all insisted on praising him. Not only did he kick the field goal, but he was the only steadying influence on a badly rattled team...
...make, etc." Friends are a normal accompaniment of normal living; it cannot be denied that studies should be the main interest of a college man. The specialization of college athletics and the keenness of college competitions are results, not causes, of the lack of interest in studies. The contrast between the man who works because he is afraid of the weekly test and the man who works because he is interested is the contrast between the man who works for someone else and the man who works for himself. It is the contrast between instruction and education...