Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands in impressive contrast to those political tendencies which are evident over wide areas of the world. . . . These changes connote a profound modification of British policy towards India...
...Council, A. B. M. R. F. started two lines across a graph representing the 31 months since Repeal. One line represented liquor consumption, the other automobile deaths. The two lines wobbled along, moving up and down from index 0 to index 115, but always their courses were almost exactly parallel. Each line fluctuated regularly with the seasons. As automobile deaths increased from the annual low in January or February to the midsummer maximum, they were accompanied by a similar rise in the consumption of liquor. Year's peaks were reached in the football season just before the Christmas holidays...
...graph, charting this parallel record of the expanding use of liquor with the general upward trend in automobile deaths, becomes its own commentator and manifestly makes it difficult . . . to successfully challenge the conclusion that an increased consumption of alcoholic beverages must be regarded as a definite factor in the endlessly growing record of automobile tragedy...
...cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...
...Parallel meetings of crematory and cemetery owners in Chicago last week revealed part of the big business which goes on behind the religious ritual of Death. Undertakers, florists and monument men do $500,000,000 worth of business a year in the U. S. Casket manufacturers do $65,000,000 gross. Crematists. a growing profession, take in $1,500,000. Priests and parsons make anywhere from $5 to $100 per funeral...