Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What, then, does the student movement in the United States amount to? It is in no sense parallel to the student movement in Europe. The European student has been face to face with crushing economic burdens, with political disqualifications, with the bitterness of religious feuds. He is exploited by Fascismo and swastika, by trade union and international, by militarist and pacifist. As a result he is either enlisted in these camps and immediately formed into the flying squadron as an active participant in the movement, or by violent reaction against such exploitation he has withdrawn either into quasi-Oriental mysticism...
...closest letter-matches of recent years is promised the University Tennis team when it meets Yale on Divinity Courts at 3 o'clock this afternoon. There is a strange parallel between the records of the Crimson and Blue teams. On Monday the golf teams of the two rivals, with records very similar to those of the tennis squads, end the minor sports season with their match on the links of the Rhode Island Country Club, at Providence...
...found the winning stroke last spring the Cornell crew seemed to be recovering all the time; the stroke was short and ineffective, the recovery labored and awkward. The odd feature of the recovery, the turning of the blades just before the catch so that the blades are almost parallel to the water with the back sides prominent, has been retained. However, Coach Lueder has wild on fantastic theories. Everything is subjected to analysis. It must be able to satisfy a mind that takes nothing for granted...
Research in the physical sciences is readily visualized in terms of guinea pigs, steam shovels, microscopes. Legal research means cloistered cerebration. To understand the parallel between legal research at Harvard and research in pure science as projected, for instance, by Secretary Hoover and his colleagues in the 20-million-dollar Research Endowment Fund lately undertaken (TIME, March 15), one must know about the Harvard staff that will conduct it-Dean Roscoe Pound and associates...
...parallel with the burly coward who terrorizes an alley, a block, a school or a town is well-nigh perfect. Mr. Lewis thought he was annihilating religion by his defiance of the Deity to strike him dead. He was, in fact, giving an amazing exhibition of bad taste, insulting and shocking to every religious mind...