Word: difference
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trilbys differ in sex. Nodier's Tri by is the fairy, the elf, yet like the model. Singularly enough both are ruined by their love...
...conditions under which Lane of Amherst made his strength test, differ much from those under which Klein made his last test. Lane made his test in about 90 minutes, while Klein made his in 15 minutes. It is very probable that there will be a contest between Lane and Klein in the near future...
...reports which have come from New Haven during the week past, it is very evident that Harvard will have to bestir herself in order to maintain the supremacy in debating next year. Yale men may or may not care much about debating. Probably the feeling there does not differ greatly from what it is here. But this we know full well, - that Yale men do care a great deal about being beaten, and that now that the graduates are fairly awake something will be done to improve Yale's chances of victory...
...weights of the two teams are seen to balance pretty evenly. Harvard is a little heavier in her rush line, Yale in her backs. The three centre men on the opposing sides differ in weight by less than a pound, but at this point Yale has the advantage of greater experience. Hickok, Stillman and McCrea are all veterans, while on the Harvard side the two Shaws have never before been in a big game. What the result will be can not be foreseen...
...Copeland said he should try to bring out some of the cardinal differences between the characters he had chosen. First, however, he spoke of their likenesses. The first thing that strikes us is, what happy creatures they are; for though each had her griefs, yet they had what we in this time should call extraordinary joy. They were also alike in being good, and they were all "bathed in an ideal light." They were not only idealized but ideal. In this they differ from all heroines of our modern literature, unless it be Lorna Doone...