Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rarely indulge in this form of biological sport, with the exception of the Texas armadillo* which reproduces regularly in this way. It bears four young of the same sex, having a common set of embryonic membranes, strikingly similar in general configuration, all coming from a single egg. Thus they parallel as quadruplets the conditions of human identical twins. Exactly what causes the egg to divide is not definitely known. Dr. Horatio H. Newman, zoologist at the University of Chicago, has patiently pursued simpler species in the hope of finding a clue. After sacrificing several starfish he has shown twinning among...
...American as baseball or apple pie," is what Biographer Irwin thinks his college mate is after years of industrious migration. Writer Arthur Brisbane suggests the handy parallel of Benjamin Franklin and says: "The more he saw of other countries, the better American he became...
Shortly after the General Motors spurt, the market's opening was one without parallel in the memory of the oldest ticker-tape scanner in the field district. It had been rumored that there was a corner-in Radio Corporation of America, that desperate shorts who sold 350,000 shares could not borrow any stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher...
...Opera," according to Rosing, "is of the theatre and for the theatre Public, a public that loves music but wants with it dramatic stage entertainment, that from the point of view of rational treatment, suggestive action, and characterization, will parallel any intelligently produced drama. From this angle 'Faust' has been approached. In Mephistopheles, who of course is the central figure of the story. Goethe was portraying the evil in man's own nature and the denial of morality and conscience, in the opinion of Rosing. This conception, depicting him as the protagonist of the negative to all human aspirations...
...comes the over-population of the college which is not only unfavourable to social values but which makes it impossible for the university to attempt freer and more generous educational experimentation. Briefly, this is the problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School was first broached, occupied a more and more prominent position in the consideration of all those connected with Yale. Now with the recent thorough treatment of the subject by President. Augell the question is place squarely before everyone. And as he requests...