Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major internal crisis threatened Korea, but the U.N. hardly knew how to intervene. Above the 38th parallel, Communists were sharpening their pencils. Roughshod old Syngman Rhee was a propaganda gift...
When Baptist and Disciples delegates got down to the brass tacks, however, it was clear that official union of the two denominations is still far away. Warned Yale's Professor Kenneth S. Latourette, retiring Baptist president: "We are realizing some [risks] in our parallel meetings with the Disciples of Christ, so like ourselves in many ways and yet so different that efforts at a closer association would only entail unhappiness for us both." Although both groups are congregational, i.e., each church runs its own affairs, church leaders found some strong doctrinal differences in the way of unity. Example...
...great oil boom has also churned up a parallel treasure hunt in the nation's securities markets. For investors, oil's lure is threefold: 1) as wealth in the ground, where its value is likely to keep abreast of inflation, 2) as the raw material of the new petrochemical industry, and 3) as the beneficiary of a "depletion allowance" which permits 27½% of income from producing wells to be plowed back before taxes are computed, thus giving oilmen a tax edge over most other industries. As a result, in two years the stocks of some...
...stamp on the envelope. In any case, Johanna got his letter, with a diagram* and instructions on how to do the problem. The Physicist's diagram merely suggested that a right triangle can be formed from 1) the line of centers, 2) a line parallel to the common tangent and running through the center of the smaller circle, and 3) the radius of the larger circle. The length of the tangent can then be found by applying the Pythagorean Theorem. "This," concluded the great man, "gives the solution." Then he signed his initials-A.E., for Albert Einstein...
...when only 25 new members were elected a year, a few revolutionary spirits founded a new outfit, the American Federation for Clinical Research (which promptly became "the Young Young Turks"), with parallel aims and fewer rules. Because the chief founder was Harvard's late great Professor Henry Christian, the group is also known as "the Young Men's Christian Association...