Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week feel certain: 1) no amount of clarioning about Crises and Crusades could obscure the fact that the central issue of the election would be Franklin D. Roosevelt, personally. 2) The direction pointed by the Republican leadership would not be opposite to Franklin Roosevelt's direction but almost parallel to it. These factors would make for a campaign of personalities and fine distinctions, a campaign of mighty mudslinging, immense oratorical confusion and an out come expressive of anything but a clear mandate from the People for the political and economic advancement...
...hundred ribbons of forest, each 150 ft. wide, each 1,200 miles long, each one mile from a parallel strip-stretching from North Dakota to Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked...
...Jupiter and wondered what they were. The mod ern art of splitting up light into its com ponent colors, which disclose the chemical nature of the source, depends on a little thing called the diffraction grating. This is a plate of glass or metal with 15,000 to 30.000 parallel lines accurately ruled across every inch of it. Each line reflects the light at a slightly different angle. It was with diffraction gratings that science learned that electrons were waves as well as particles, that beams of light were particles as well as waves...
...TIME'S and its sections began with National Affairs and ended with Books. But Cavalcade's editors chose a casual way of commenting on the parallel. From a letter from young Randolph Churchill advising them not to "be afraid of being accused of copying the big things in TIME," a footnote was laconically dropped: "This is a newsmagazine published in the United States. . . ." "Accurate, Brisk, Complete," Cavalcade regretted that its first issue was caught between two reigns, thus requiring an eight page take-out on the death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron...
Though there were pumps in the earliest days their positions are now unknown. A map of the college drawn in 1811 locates three pumps parallel to the stream which ran through the low part of the Yard and across the Square...