Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the wireless message and the Commander's message came the battle. Firing opened at 7,000 yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...
Investigation shows that the "certain residents residing on Mill Street," which runs parallel to Memorial Drive between Lowell and Winthrop Houses consist solely of Miss Mary A. McDonnell. Inasmuch as the house itself belongs to the University, and as Miss McDonnell herself has expressed her willingness to have Mill Street closed on Class Day, it is quite possible that the City Council may be prevailed upon to shelve chivalry and to rescind the order...
...incoming liner steering for a light-ship finds its direction by rotating the loop antenna of the radiocompass. The beacon is strongest when the loop is parallel to the direction of the signals, weakest when it is at right angles. Since sound travels much more slowly through water than radio waves through air, the distance of the lightship can be computed by noting the time between reception of the beacon and oscillograph signals...
...some little time, it has been increasingly clear that post-war history is repeating prewar history. To make this point is almost to risk belaboring the obvious, but recept events continue to strengthen parallel. Inevitably, the similarities are not exact, and the analogies, or homologies, cannot be dealt with too. Literally, but nevertheless they exist...
COMPANY PARADE-Storm Jameson- Knopf ($2.50). Sooner or later most novelists worth their salt come to grips with a Big Subject. Fortnight ago Storm Jameson showed she has tackled hers. Like U. S. Author John Dos Passos (The 42nd Parallel, 1919), French Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), English Author Jameson has taken the contemporary scene as her model. Like theirs, her picture will be years in the making. Company Parade, which merely introduces the principal characters, is "the first of perhaps five, or six novels"; her finished magnum opus will be called The Mirror in Darkness. Readers...