Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
...them almost twins. Teapot Dome, however, resulted from a collaboration between onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, oilman; Elk Hills proceeded from an association between Mr. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, also an oilman. So they have constituted two distinct, though parallel cases which in 1923 spread a sticky mess over the Harding Administration and cheered many Democrats with the happy thought that the next President would be chosen from the Democratic party. But with the death of President Harding and the advent of President Coolidge the oil scandals slipped...
Spillways. The most promising and most seriously considered flood-control method is the spillway. The Atchafalaya River is a good example of a natural spillway. It flows, roughly speaking, parallel to the Mississippi through Louisiana. By building strong levees all along its length to the Gulf it could be turned into a kind of trough which would draw off water from the Mississippi itself. In the present flood the Atchafalaya did, in a way, perform exactly this function; unfortunately, however, it received altogether too much water so that the later stages of the flood were along the Atchafalaya, not along...
...cover approximately the same ground, and a somewhat complete knowledge of one, combined with an incomplete knowledge of the other frequently enables a man to pass a course with a grade, for example, of C. In the future, when the student finds that lectures and reading do not actually parallel each other, he will be faced by a condition demanding closer attention to both...
Returning to earth is where the experience and "feeling" of the skilled pilot are most evident. Without looking at his instrument board, he can tell by the feel of his plane that he is traveling in a straight line parallel with the ground and is ready to land gracefully. An inexperienced pilot often fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels...