Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfairness shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...
This is not likely to happen here. The system of parallel appointments (Professor LeCorbeiller's new title is "Professor of General Education in the Physical Sciences and of Applied Physics") means that laymen as well as fellow-specialists can share the knowledge of the scholar. And the scholar will still have time to keep up with his specialty...
...opportunities in College teaching are on the decline, Dean Samuel T. Arnold, of Brown University, told an audience which gathered in the Leverett House dining hall last night to hear a conference on careers in education. Smaller college enrollments will cause parallel drops in teaching personnel, Arnold explained...
When he met the U.S. press, St. Laurent's eyes twinkled as he pointed to a parallel between himself and Harry Truman. "We both came into office without an election," he said, "and we both replaced men who had wide experience and . . . success in winning elections. Mr. Truman has had his acid test, and I am facing mine ... I am here to try to find out, at first hand, Mr. Truman's secret...
...Parallel with the satire in The Price Is Right, Weidman tries something bigger; he appears to offer Henry Cade as a sort of modern Macbeth, a surrogate for all men gnawed by too much ambition. But Weidman's Macbeth remains strictly from Madison Avenue, and one side of the street at that...