Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article on page thirteen of the September 17 issue of the morning Boston Globe entitled "Harvard opens center for Jewish community," he initially discusses the parallel between the increasing numbers of Jews at Harvard and the movement of Hillel toward the center of campus. Rosovsky said, "Harvard has helped in many ways. Most of all Harvard has made us feel at home. We are neither hyphenated nor second class citizens. We have to be leaders in keeping Harvard's gates open to all those who have the merit to enter." Though against quotas, Rosovsky said he favored "sympathy and tolerance...
Indeed, as the governor, mayor, and nearly every candidate for public office in the Commonwealth have noted since at least mid-August, the visit of the Pope to Boston is an event of immense significance, one without parallel, outshining even that most memorable 11th of July 1976 when her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II addressed the city from the balcony of her royal ancestors' Province House. (Her Majesty's visit is cited as a precedent by various advocates of public support for the papal visit on the ground that the Queen is the Head of the Church of England...
...parallel to the Core Curriculum is in the distribution requirements," Arthur J. Dyck, Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics, said yesterday. "The Div School has always been skittish about requirements--we've gotten around them thorugh integrated exams," he added...
...relatively poor quality of surveying instruments used in 1774 and the common practice of basing astronomical observations on the moons of Jupiter rather than the star Polaris, it is amazing that the boundary between Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Que., is as close to the "true" 45th parallel of latitude as is the case...
...many young people, the day usually starts with a leisurely coffee at the Dong Hai (Eastern Sea) restaurant close to the Bund, Shanghai's main waterfront road. Others start with exercises on parallel bars in the People's Park. By midday boredom sets in. The unemployed pace the banks of the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River or just wander about aimlessly. There is a lot of window-shopping: by men at the new Jinxing television store on Nanjing Avenue, by women at the First Department Store's display of pleated skirts. In neither location are the displayed goods...