Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patrician respectability of his home. Like the hero of the Aeneid, he suffered many hardships upon land and sea, at one time even becoming, as did John Masefield and an equally August Figure in American poetry, interested in keeping a saloon. It might be ungracious to continue the parallel of Mr. Masefield and the A. F. further, but it would appear that Count Luckner drank up most of his profits and even part of his capital in this undertaking, and soon went to sea again...
...purpose of the tutorial plan to supersede instruction in courses or to provide an added burden for the student to carry through his college course. Work done out of courses with the tutor is intended to parallel the path followed by the lecturer and to supply the material necessarily omitted in the management of a large lecture course...
Last autumn the Marconi Co. opened a "beam" radio service between Canada and England (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). Last January the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated actual exchanges of the human voice by telephone between London and Manhattan eek there was announced a step towards a parallel development of communication westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride...
...spillway is a ditch dug alongside and parallel to a river so that when the river overflows the excess water will be taken off by the spillway. The Mississippi and would become a natural spillway to the Atchafalaya Rivers run roughly parallel through Louisiana, so that by establishing a channel between them the Atchafalaya Mississippi...
...International Date Line runs down the 180th parallel of longitude from the North Pole almost to Wrangel Island, then slants east to pass through Bering Strait, slants west again to Long. 180° again and on down to the South Pole...