Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colorful spectacle which has no parallel at Harvard, Yale's Derby Day, Saturday lived up to all tradition as Eli sports teams swept through to victory in almost every contest in which they participated to complete the already overflowing joy of the Eli fans...
Curiously enough, Neddermeyer and Anderson of the California Institute of Technology have arrived at the same results as Street and Stevenson, working independently but along somewhat parallel lines. Their results are to be published in an early number of the American Physical Review...
...stretch across the sparsely populated top of the continent. Yukon, jammed between Alaska-and Mackenzie, is washed on the north by the Arctic Ocean. It is a tilted rugged land sloping unevenly eastward from the Rockies and northward from British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change to the White Pass & Yukon Railway which snakes across a lake region between mountains to Whitehorse...
...down 13, and the Dow-Jones industrial stock average down 6½ points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers saw in this no mere repetition of the milder reaction in April 1936, with which it had a curious day by day parallel. At week's end as stock prices leveled off on solid ground an air of ingenuous satisfaction was all too plain in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt had apparently done a good job of deflation by suggestion, and the behavior of London banks in restricting credit on American securities gave reason...
...dangerous pilot fatigue, the Bureau of Air Commerce forbids airline pilots to fly scheduled planes more than 1,000 hours a year, 100 hours a month, 30 hours a week or eight hours in every 24. If any pilot exceeds these maximums, he is fined $500. Last week a parallel regulation for truck drivers was underscored as Magistrate's Court in Flushing, L. I. brought in the first conviction under a new State law forbidding truck drivers to drive more than ten hours in any consecutive 14. The culprit was one Joseph Simon. Inspector Samuel Sussman of the Department...