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Word: parallels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impersonation of a girl who at the last moment replaces a famed screen star, who for publicity purposes has condescended to return to show business for one dramatic appearance, suggests a parallel be tween art and life that is likely to confuse most spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...look at the crews, a reduction in the reach was the first new point he stressed in a short demonstration on the machines. While formerly each man tried to get out as far as he could, in the new stroke he only has to reach until the oar is parallel to the outermost bar of the outrigger. The legs are kept closer together with the "inside leg," that nearest the oar, drawn up between the arms. It is thus easier to make a quick, even pull-though with plenty of leg drive. The former stroke was apt to be divided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Material on River Plentiful as Bolles Works on Shorter, Smoother Stroke | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...drowning at the sinking of the "Lusitania". At the right of the door an armored fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword shows the threat of destruction by those who control the power of the Ring. No one has so far come forward with the Nazi parallel for this symbol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAZI vs. NIEBELUNG | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

Your announcement in TIME, Oct. 12, p. 89 (". . . The half hour weekly radio period will best compliment and parallel TIME'S news reporting.") sounds ominous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Running parallel to these official relations between Harvard and France, there are the perhaps more significant intellectual adventures and encounters of individuals. Emerson's lifelong study and veneration of Montaigne is touched upon by Charles Cestre; Maurice Le Breten discusses Henry Adams' tardy discovery of France by way of the Norman churches and Chartres; Jacques Chevalier analyzes the intellectual affinity between Henri Bergson and William James. Bergson himself, in a graceful comment on Chevalier's essay, records his personal memories of James, whose portrait hangs before him as he writes...

Author: By Instructor IN French and Howard C. Rice, S | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/14/1936 | See Source »

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