Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similarity of writing structure. The same basic ideas often follow each other within paragraphs and in like-constructed sentences in the two manuscripts. Moreover, the same anecdotes sometimes follow each other, even when no logic compels it. In the boxes on the following pages are two extended examples of parallel episodes from the two books. In addition, herewith a selected reading of other similar incidents...
...Harvard should be a tutorial system and that it should be centered in them. As he foresaw it, a student in a House would deal only or mainly with faculty members associated with his House, perhaps resident in it, and thus academic and social relationships would be closely parallel. This system, modelled on the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, would nog have worked for natural scientists in any case (as the English have discovered); financial stringencies of the depression years brought a cut in tutorial instead of the planned expansion; and a new administration beginning in 1933 had other priorities...
...counts. Staubach is the leading passer in the National Football Conference. Griese is the leading passer in the American Football Conference. Now, on the eve of the sixth annual Super Bowl, the two best young quarterbacks in professional football are preparing to establish a crucial difference in their parallel careers: the difference between winner and loser...
...developments of Monroe and his apprentices. There have been a number of innovators in the past few years in the lyrical area, who have adapted material from the folk and rock fields. But with the exception of a few groups which no longer exist, there has not been a parallel development in instrumental innovation. Country Cooking has faced this challenge squarely, with a number of changes resulting. As mentioned earlier, the group is writing new tunes, hummable, foot-tapping tunes which leave you happy and full of energy. Even the traditional blue grass numbers which they perform are barely recognizable...
...Enlightenment, becoming concerned about disparities in the internal chronology of the Gospels, reopened the issue. German Scholar Johann Griesbach, in 1774, performed one service by eliminating the Gospel of John from the dispute. He showed that John is distinct in style and content, whereas the other three share many parallel passages and signs of interdependence. Griesbach called them the "synoptic" Gospels, meaning that they should be "viewed together...