Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesman Stimson, as it appeared circumstantially, played the Barco con cession against the $4,000,000 loan and thus secured a triumph of dollar diplomacy? No, was his indignant answer. The two matters, while parallel, were separate and distinct. The State Department insisted that its sole concern in these negotiations was "the fostering of friendly relations...
...into the standing train's rear, plowed through almost its entire length. Wooden cars splintered like match boxes, dead and dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods, bore down from the opposite direction. The wounded could not move. The freight could not stop...
...toast the new young blood and rename the troupe "The Good Companions." The last scene of the act comes off splendidly. There is an authentic esprit-de-corps to this ill-assorted group of broken-down actors and novices, a rather poignant spirit that can be recalled in parallel scenes in "Trelawney of the Wells...
There is a medieval Roman proverb in connection with the election of Popes, to the effect that "he who goes into the conclave a pope, comes out a cardinal." This phrase has a parallel application in American politics. It is well-known that the candidate for the presidential nomination who receives too large a lead is likely to excite jealousy. The result frequently is a coalition to stop him even at the cost of nominating a weaker candidate, true particularly in the Democratic party. And in the past it has often kept it from victory. The deadlock caused...
Thoroughly unpopular with pioneer companies are Motorman Errett Lobban Cord's Century Air Lines and Century Pacific Air Lines. Two months ago Century Pacific turned its face east from Los Angeles, prepared to parallel American Airways' route to El Paso. As operator for more than a year of this southern transcontinental link, American Airways had bought it and the pioneer rights from Standard Air Lines, invested large sums in radio, beacons, emergency landing fields, weather reporting services...