Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these misgivings, parallel groups in the two colleges have combined in almost everything but name, and none of those dire predictions have been realized. Political groups, drama groups, and language groups, to name a few, have all cooperated closely for many years. The only effect the current rules have is merely to inconvenience student organizations, confuse their authority, force them to figure out separate charters and to elect separate officers. Whatever purpose the authorities had in mind for these restrictions have long since been lost in the muddle; only the inconveniences remain...
...which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia, but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion . . . There is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese make-up . . . Their interests are at present parallel with those of the Soviet...
...looking for foundation money to pay for the project. The complete microfilming process will cost $125,000, take 25 months to complete. When it is finished, said St. Louis' Father Bernard Dempsey, who is engineering the project, scholars in the U.S. will have access to "a treasure without parallel anywhere outside Rome...
...Hwachon Reservoir area, six miles above the 38th parallel, Colonel Harris' regiment was in a desperate fight for control of floodwaters-a scrap such as U.S. troops had not seen since the early part of 1945, when First Army doughfeet fought through the Hürtgen Forest to seize the Roer River dams in Germany's Rhineland...
...parallel problem stems from the fact that only a small portion of each committee's work could be televised. The group that decides which portion will be televised holds a dangerous power over public opinion; again the tendency would be to favor dramatic accusations over the more sober refutations...