Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Total visits to all clinics this fall are 6,342, the figures show, which is 363 more than a year ago. Commenting, Bock said, "The various clinics as a whole are running nearly parallel with last year, which was the heaviest year in the history of the department...
...Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, who volunteered, Dr. Moran made two parallel slices from the left armpit straight down the side to the left hip. This week Dr. Moran will separate the strip of skin between the incisions from the underlying flesh and clip the long edges together to make a tube attached at one end to the boy's armpit, the other to his hip. As the bared flesh heals, new blood vessels will form in the tube of flesh -blood vessels which will nourish it during the next and more difficult stage...
...Allais, who last February at Chamonix won the International Ski Federation's World Championship by taking firsts in the slalom and downhill races, laid down a new and highly controversial rule for skiing. All skiing turns should be abandoned, said Champion Allais, excepting the pure Christiania and the parallel Christiania. The French Ski Federation heartily concurred with its champion and, when his Le Ski Français was published last week at Bellegarde, a small town in France, the Federation promptly adopted it as the official method of teaching Frenchmen...
...frightful conditions surrounding the hospitalization of patients. My efforts, I believe, have been somewhat successful. The ratio of patients to beds used to be 1.7. It is now 1.2. But, in spite of this, much remains to be done in order to remedy a situation which undoubtedly has no parallel in the medical annals of America...
...General Electric, Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, President Henry C. Turner of Turner Construction Co., Banker S. Sloan Colt. When the stock-market promptly registered a hopeful advance after these conferences, it was so much like old times that the New York Sun printed a parallel series of 1929 and 1937 headlines. In the Hoover tradition, but not the Hoover manner, the President let it be known that he hoped to end the decline not by Government spending but by doing all he could to persuade private capital to take up the slack caused by the curtailment...