Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the alleged parallel between President Conant's recent statement on the possible advisability of curtailing university attendance and certain policies of the National Socialists, a parallel suggested by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, I should like to call the Union's attention to the remarks on Germany in Kotschnig's recent book, Unemployment in the Learned Professions, and to Lowe's article in Social Research of last September. (Kotschnig is now teaching in this country, Lowe in England.) There is considerable evidence that the fifty to seventy thousand unemployed university graduates in Germany in 1932 not only...
Despite Daphnia's similarity to human, beings, Dr. Banta warned last week that too close a parallel must not be drawn-in other words, children should not be starved in the hope that they will live to be centenarians. But the scientist ventured this...
...realistic treatment of the flesh and its peculiar manner of suggesting the long waving hair its closest parallel is found in the work of Jerome DuQuesnoy the younger, the most eminent among the many Flemish sculptors of that time. Very few examples of this school are to be seen in this country; perhaps no other so close to its ablest practitioner...
...which encircled the town from both flanks. When General Franco counterattacked Teruel he poured his army into a frontal assault and did not take it. Last week Leftist generals used their heads again. Franco's army before Teruel is supplied by a single road running north to Saragossa, parallel to the main Aragon front. Instead of trying to repulse Franco by pouring men into the town, Leftists launched four attacks at four separate points in an attempt to cut this road. If any of the four had succeeded, Franco's attacks on Teruel would have had to cease...
...Harvard graduate down in Washington who is known to be highly interested in this subject. President Roosevelt proposes a lot of new buildings, and he wants them to the good buildings, better than have ever been constructed before, and more of them. His views might well from a third parallel, pointing in the same direction as the two Harvard reports. May the ambitions of all three men as regards building grow closer and clearer until the time comes when they can blend in the achievements of their object together...