Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard previously sought "a chair in Modern Korean Studies to parallel the present chair in Pre-Modern Korean Studies" whose stress is historical. I failed almost completely to get it. And, while prating of further quest, by getting a major economic-society component alone in a small and job-starved field with few fund sources, it becomes far less likely that Harvard can and will make good the discrepancy...
...doctor's office. Complaining of chest pains, Daley, who had suffered from angina for several years, dropped by for a checkup-and collapsed. Ninety minutes of efforts by medical teams could not revive him. After 22 years as mayor, at the head of a political machine without parallel in America, Daley was dead...
Tanner cut in parallel to the goal and stroked in a belly shot after Norwich had fired in two more to make the score 9-6 after three chukkers...
...YEARS now Wolfe has scampered up the trellis of his style. Up, up he went, up the face of one of those Riverside Drive apartments he pretends to despise so much. Peering in through the picture window he discovered, in a perverse parallel to Orwell's Animal Farm, that there's no difference between him and the writers at the cocktail party inside, that in fact, he's a lot worse than what he tried to supplant. During the trial of the Chicago Eight, J. Anthony Lukas '55, who covered it for The New York Times, tried to insert David...
...award, sponsored by Norwegian newspapers and civic groups as a grass-roots parallel to this year's Nobel Peace Prize,* drew an outpouring of $324,000 in donations from Norway and around the world. Her voice trembling, Williams announced that the money would go to a children's center in Belfast's gutted slums. "When I look at sound and happy Norwegian children," she told the audience, "I think of the boys and girls of Northern Ireland, children used to war, to nerve medicine and sleeping pills, and I ask: 'God, forgive us for what...