Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some two score Septembers ago Midshipman Samuel S. Robison and Midshipman Charles P. Hughes were classmates and roommates at the Naval Academy. Graduating, they married sisters. For 40 years their friendship has been unbroken and their careers strikingly parallel. During the war each received a decoration for "exceptionally meritorious services." At present they rank 17 and 18 on the list of Naval officers...
Inventor Hammond has perfected for the piano a device which enables the player to have control over notes after he has struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return...
...teaching things contrary to law and disrespectful to the gods, had (like Mr Scopes) refused to deny his action, but defended it only by saying that he had taught the truth, which was, in his eyes, the highest form of reverence; and was (like Mr. Scopes) convicted. The parallel, they said, fell down in only one important point: Mr. Scopes was given a fine of $100; Socrates was given a cup of hemlock...
...Andrews' office, "that before he would undertake to enforce Prohibition with an outfit com- posed of one part fanatics and one part politicians, he would give up his job." The spirit was amplified by Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition cases (a job parallel to Mr. Andrews' in the Treasury Department...
...action is in the eyes of newspapermen one of the heights of nobility-a height to which all aspire if they should ever be thrust into a similar situation. For them, it ranks with the heroism of the telephone girl who sticks to her post in a fire, is parallel to,the devotion to duty of the old Roman who executed his own son for disobeying military commands...