Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with its promises, then yanking the bed sheet from under them when they got sick, citing the fine print of the contract. The company has also been involved in policyholder suits. One rose out of a decision by the company's officers in 1926 to set up a parallel life insurance company, using Mutual's facilities and staff. Not only did the parallel company, United Benefit Life Insurance Co., wax rich in the years that followed, but later, Mutual officers who owned most of the privately held United stock proposed to have Mutual buy them...
...twins' careers are remarkably parallel, on and off court. Both are married to surgeons-Betty to onetime (1935) Princeton Football Captain W. Pepper Constable; Peggy to Robert White of Rochester. Each has three children. Chief difference: Betty is lefthanded. Peggy was champion in 1952 and 1953. Betty won in 1950, regained her championship in 1956 and has held it ever since...
...surface of silicon monoxide to keep it at proper temperature in sun or shadow, was put into a spin of about 50 r.p.m. The spin made it act like a gyroscope, keeping its axis always pointing in the same direction in space. At its perigee, the axis is parallel to the earth's surface. But a quarter of a revolution later the axis points vertically at the earth (see diagram). At apogee, the axis is parallel again...
...dual responsibilities of the new post parallel those of Elliot Forbes, professor of Music and director of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society who was appointed last year. Both Faculty members must divide their time between teaching and conducting under graduate extra-curricular activities...
...Some kind of formal student-faculty collaboration, on the same committee or on parallel committees ought to be worked out," claimed Washburn, former member of the executive board of the Harvard Dramatic Club...