Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fears that members more than enough would hasten to join the H. N. P. D. A., Harvard North Pole Discovery Association. The doubt might be raised, to be sure, whether the ardor of the sledgers would not cool by the time they reached the region of the tenth parallel, but in that case we should still have the shingles...
Seemingly parallel to Dr. Straton's venture is the drive for funds now staged by the Anti-Saloon League. At a meeting in a Boston Church Rev. William, Harmon van Allen pleaded for contributions of from ten to one hundred dollars partly as a thank-offering to God for the blessings of Prohibition, and partly to fight, "any conspiracy of pocketbooks empty bottles, or of bums" who should make attempt at repeal the Volstead Act in 1928. So far as can be learned no specific mention was made as to the use of these funds. It is not vitally needed...
...they been drinking?" asked the magistrate. "The usual stuff." "Will you shake hands?" asked the magistrate. Grinning sheepishly, the two philosophers shook hands. ""Case dismissed," said the magistrate, who reflected, as the pair left arm in arm, that philosophy is thicker than alcohol. News writers drew the obvious parallel of Damon & Phintias...
...into the hands of editors callow and ribald, is neither unusual nor significant. The Lampoon's coarse insults to Princeton, subsequent inept apologies and yet more recent displays of awkwardness in prose, verse and cartoon, were simply the sort of thing that can happen in undergraduate journalism-a parallel to the miserable football team that often afflicts a college just after it has won a championship...
This system cannot be considered sound unless one admits its parallel. Suppose the training of the mind depended financially on the drawing power of a few members of the faculty in their lectures. Suppose the tutorial system. Widener Library and Jefferson Laboratory depended for their existence on the financial returns from three or four Billy Sundays lecturing in Mechanics Hall and the New York Hippedrome on government, literature, and science at five dollars admission. It would be laughable of course but it is no more illogical and wrong than to make the development of bodily health depend upon a similar...