Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...
Riesman countered with a parallel example of a biochemistry teacher who sees his most promising male student become a medical doctor...
Kearns noted that the new link between the Music Department and the orchestra would "roughly parallel the relationship of the Department to the Glee Club." It would involve, he added, a change in the written constitution...
...Henry Moore, 60, the first major sculptor Britain has produced in centuries, and Barbara Hepworth, 55, whose pebble-smooth, elegantly shaped forms echo the thin abstractions of her former husband, Painter Ben Nicholson. Approaching fame is Ralph Brown, 30, who aims in roughhewn style at creating images that "parallel the personality of the people," and Leslie Thornton, 33, a welder of bronze cages in which tortured figures seem suspended or crucified...
Hayward explained that Russia, unlike this country, issues passports only for specific purposes and for durations exactly parallel to purposes...