Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atchafalaya and the Mississippi flow southward and (very roughly) parallel, and between these two rivers is a long narrow strip of land?a sort of finger of dry territory...
Said Will Irwin, author, journalist: "Excepting war alone, the history of the United States shows no parallel to this for death, destruction, disturbance and misery...
...Katie" runs from St. Louis to Kansas City, Mo., then due south, parallel to the. K. C. Southern, through Parsons, Kan., Muskogee, Okla., Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston, Tex., to Galveston, Tex., on the Gulf of Mexico. Its commodities are those of the K. C. Southern, plus merchandise transshipped from the East at St. Louis...
...chief control on an airplane is the "joy stick," regulating the ailerons on the wings and the elevator on the tail. Stand a pencil vertically on a table. Affix a piece of cardboard, parallel with the table, to the upper end of the pencil. Slant the pencil at any angle in any direction, keeping its lower end on the table. Imagine that the pencil is the joy stick, the table is the ground, the cardboard is the airplane. Thus, can be seen the approximate positions of a flying ship as determined by manipulating the joy stick. A pilot must constantly...
...Johnson Harahan of the C. & O. mentioned that he was trying to buy control of the Virginian Railway for $80,000,000. This is the 545-mile road that Col. Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil built to tap the soft coal deposits at Deepwater, W. Va. It runs parallel with the C. & O. to Hampton Roads, Va. Last year the Pennsylvania, through its subsidiary, the Norfolk & Western, sought to lease the Virginian for 999 years. But the I. C. C. said no. The C. & O. may have better arguments to present before...