Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South of Peiping two roughly parallel railroads run, one to central Hankow the other to Pukow and Nanking. Because divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's highly mechanized, German-trained personal army were driving north six weeks ago, threatening to cut the Japanese line between Peiping and the sea, the Japanese Navy was ordered to stage what is technically known as a diversion at Shanghai...
...found in any institution in the country. The space allotted does not permit a detailed description of all the clubs, organizations, and fraternities that are scattered throughout the College and Graduate Schools, but suffice to say that nearly every student can find among the list some group whose interests parallel...
...leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when Will Rogers caroled Ta-rah-rah-boom-de-ay. Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first picture in which Miss Powell...
...studied the appearance of the water just before a flying fish lifted from it. This, said he in Science last week, "was not like the wake of a boat, nor like the ruffled water behind an aeroplane taking off. It was rather a series of dots in two parallel rows, thus : : : : : : :, and was undoubtedly made by the tips of the fluttering wings before the fish had completely cleared the water." The fish, he said, moved close to the water surface, covered up to 50 yards in a flight, would sometimes make "a slight turn of some 20 degrees...
...parallel was obvious. The President had asked Congress for crop control legislation and had failed to get it. Now, with a bumper crop threatening to depress cotton prices, Southern Congressmen wanted him to use Commodity Credit Corporation's $135,000,000 kitty to grant farmers loans of 10? a lb. on their cotton and to peg the price at 12? a lb. Only assurance that such loans would be repaid lay, according to the President, in legislation to limit next year's crop. Before granting them he wanted as assurance the equivalent of a "banker's acceptance...