Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City. In Denver, 50 miles away, citizens rejoiced. Some thought that the six-mile Moffat Tunnel, longest railroad bore in the U. S., would soon be ready for snorting locomotives. They were wrong. Only the smaller pioneer bore,† running parallel with the railroad tunnel, was completed last week...
...Series and Parallel Circuits," Professor Black, Physics B. Jefferson Laboratory...
...higher education the ground must be fully prepared in the primary, and, more specifically, in the secondary schools. For purposes of effective cooperation in order to avoid those dangerous pitfalls which yawn for the incoming Freshman whenever the purposes of school and college diverge even slightly from the parallel, no finer means could be devised than such a conference as this where discussion is carried on before the background of a college in active movement and in the presence of those who are shaping its policies and defining its aims...
That such a scheme as this can be advanced at all must be deplorable. The tutorial system at Harvard has always been based on the assumption that it was not a subsidiary department, but a parallel one. It has always been assumed that the tutor was to contribute something to the education of the student which he could not obtain from the work which he did in courses. To establish a graded system of promotion from the ranks of tutors to the rostra of lecture balls would destroy this primary purpose of the system. It would substitute for the better...
...This parallel would no longer be posiible. Byrd and Amundsen have taken the last chance for glory from Harvard-Yale athletics by charting the road to the Pole. Had the original proposal been carried out, the evils of intercollegiate athletics might never have survived until today. Instead of preparations for the annual football contest, the fall might find the hardy occupants of the Crimson and Blue sledges girding their loins for a final dash across the perilous ice fields of the Arctic to the Pole...