Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last 26 years, bubonic plague has spread east and west from India in a broad belt which now encircles the globe on both sides of the equator, roughly bounded by the 35th parallels of latitude. In Europe it is prevalent as far north as the 45th parallel, but in the Western Hemisphere it has appeared sporadically only in the large cities of the Gulf and Pacific Coasts. It is essentially a disease of the Tropics. Within this belt no preventive measures have been able to stamp it out. Further to the north or south it has failed to spread, whether...
...abysmal ignorance of the American press, often declaimed, is not without parallel abroad. Hugo Stinnes' paper, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, furnished the new President of the United States with attributes and personal history which are the private property of Professor Archibald Gary Coolidge of Harvard University, former holder of several diplomatic posts, author of The United States as a World Power, and other works...
...there is an Anglophobe press in this country, there is also an Americophobe press in England, and in some respects they offer a striking parallel. John Bull, British weekly, formerly edited by Horatio Bottomley, is perhaps the best example of the Americophobe demagogophile paper...
...prejudices are not altogether trustworthy. It is entirely possible that the threatened removal of President Meiklejohn is a false alarm, and the Senior delegation to New York a wild-goose chase. It is likewise possible that President Atwood has been misjudged and wrongly maligned. But the cases suggest a parallel. The undergraduates at both colleges are supported by the younger graduates and the most respected members of the faculty. The alumni who have been longer away from college, along with the majority of trustees, seem to be joined in opposition. The issue in each case is liberalism, and the older...
...that held by Voltaire at a later date and his death was widely mourned as a national calamity. But few men have heard of this author--once universally famous--except as a mere figure in histories of literature. His plays--all but two or three-have been forgotten. And parallel to him in English literature one might mention Trollope and his novels, and Lydgate and his verses...