Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern parallel of the Inquisition is to be found in the Religious Questionnaire to be published in newspapers throughout the United States for the remainder of the present week. Laudable though the purpose is--that of attempting to improve the national moral condition--it is difficult to see how such a series of questions as those asked by the Church Advertising Association can be of much practical aid. The first "Do you believe in God"--is typical of the manner in which the questions are pre-pounded. Whether or not the reader does believe in God is a matter after...
...basketball" declared Dr. Morley in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "We have found the great stone courts in which this game was played. The floor measured 100 yards long and 30 yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter, fixed perpendicular rather than horizontally, as is the case with the modern basketball hoop. This arrangement made it necessary...
...recent letter to certain first-year students at the Law School, Dean Roscoe Pound Hon. '18 has occasioned a wave of indignation that is without parallel in the recent history of the graduate school. The diplomatic recriminations and amenities which, followed the severance of athletic relations between Princeton and the University have not been the only consequences of the football game of a week ago. A disciplinary warning issued by the Law School authorities has aroused among the students a bitter discussion. It was issued to those first-year men who were reported absent at their last class before...
...assemblage, saying in part: 'I hope you will not think me too visionary if I say that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space.' As all my auditors knew, I had already perfected such beam-projection for directive radio communication. Last fortnight I received a postoffice certificate for shortwave 'beam' stations connecting England and Canada (TIME...
...Reversing the situation of Marie A. Easby-Smith (TIME, Nov. 1), and parallel to that of La Vestale, in the opera of that name, Anna Le Brun, 46, of New Bedford, Mass., has just been relieved by Pope Pius XI of her vows as Sister of Charity, in order to marry Sergeant Frank Levesque, 48, U. S. A. The two were childhood friends, and recently met again, after 25 years, at the bedside of a mutual friend...