Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official announcement from Yale headquarters quashed the rumor that an observation train will follow the race this year. Before the war, a special railroad train used to run parallel to the river during the races, but the practice was discontinued because of the shortage of flatcars and the lack of wooden stands...
...occupation troops will be transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
...Look at the Chart. Bolivians, Brazilians and Argentines like to spread out big survey charts of the potentially great, 150-mile-wide petroleum zone stretching parallel to the Andes right across the Oriente. "Today we have tin, tomorrow oil," gloated a Bolivian engineer. "There is no better oil anywhere in the world," said a Brazilian, with an unmistakably proprietary air. The Argentines, who were already selling cast-iron plumbing in Santa Cruz, expected to have their...
...days when men were men, it was fashionable to take a heave at the oars. Which left the upper body almost parallel with the water. The principle behind this was that a mighty pull more than offset the waste motion and energy involved. Such fine points as not wobbling the boat or making a smooth recovery were ignored...
...crew reporter, on the other hand, finds himself in a spacious launch which runs up the river parallel to the race. Thus he may not only see all the race, but see it from an optimum angle. There are many items of interest which the aforementioned spectator never discovers for the simple reason that they all crop up out of sight. Chief among these is that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis...