Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British estimates are that a quantity of liquor equal to about half of cne per cent of the amount consumed in the United States prior to prohibition will come here from the Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade...
...capitalized value instead of the income derived from the products, and this capitalized value is often unjust. Too frequently the land's worth is judged by a comparison with similar farms in the community, with the result that great injustices are committed unwittingly. This theory, he said, might be parallel to the English one of raising the selling price of estates because a social prestige is connected with them...
...here at least in the senior year; the general examinations, too, correspond, except that Princeton has two to our one; and the system of "majors and minors" corresponds closely with the familiar "Concentration and Distribution." Even the underlying purpose is the same; there is little indeed to complete the parallel. The innovation on an ultimate panacea. "The day of benevolent despotism fades into the background; from now on the compelling force will be individuality." Yet Harvard, where the system has had a trial of years, is still wondering where to find the "initial interest." Perhaps the small difference in Princeton...
...cases are not parallel, however, since there is a special provision of the treaty allowing France and Italy to reconstruct their capital ships in respects not permitted to other powers. But raising the angles of naval guns is nowhere specifically mentioned. The treaty is unfortunately vague both in specification and intent as regards the whole matter...
...although the press and the propagandists of many past cras have blazoned for war on what then seemed to them the best of grounds. "Fifty-four forty or fight" thrilled thousands in the forties, but the fact remains that for seventy-five years our northern boundary has run along parallel forty nine to the entire satisfaction and to the lasting honor of both Great Britain and the United States...