Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade immediately preceding World War II the fraternities' contributions to the student and to the college were of such an extremely negative nature that from many quarters it was urged that the organizations not be allowed to return to the campus after the War. When the two parallel and independent reports considering the post-war college were submitted early in 1945: "Amherst Tomorrow" by the alumni committee and a report on Long Range Policy by a faculty committee and a report on Long Range Policy by a faculty committee, both also recommended abolition of the fraternity system...
...fissures, a foot or two in width, now trace an irregular line back of and parallel to the canal-fronting face of Contractor's Hill. Engineers guess that the cracks may run 600 ft. deep. Because it is hard, granite-like rock rather than the soft, clay-shale conglomerate of earlier slides, the face of Contractor's Hill will make a formidable dam if it falls...
...Russians claimed to have gathered much information on water and air move ments in the Arctic regions and on irregularities in the earth's magnetic field. Near Siberia, they said, the magnetic meridians are gathered into almost parallel bundles that point across the Arctic Ocean toward the magnetic pole in northern Canada. Magnetic meridians normally converge like geographical meridians...
...Glidden, 13 months, who had an opening between the ventricles of his heart. The donor's blood had to match the baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable. As the infant lay on one operating table, his father was on another parallel to it. A surgeon tapped the main artery in the father's thigh, led the freshly oxygenated blood to a pump which boosted it on its way to a tube set into an artery in Gregory's chest. After it had coursed through his system, the blood flowed...
...faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent. Toledano says he was trying to show "the seeds of life and the forces which protect it," using human, bird and animal parts to create "a synthesis of life." In Parallel, Toledano's intent is clearer. As he explains it, "The man and the vase, the animate and the inanimate, resemble each other very much. The joke is on man here. Man considers himself the crown of creation, but he is really empty, like a vase...