Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pious" are of course a group to be derided. The catch is that the exclusion of religious instruction, as you well know, makes impossible the provision of truthful, scientific, or rational answers. It is exactly parallel to a decree making two times two equal five, and any such insult to the intelligence of the thinking men of the world should be opposed and resented...
...citizens. There must be an end to the idea that a workman should be held to his labors throughout the daylight hours." Since Mr. Bennett is even richer than Mr. Roosevelt and extremely close to Canada's great Capitalists, the rest of his speech might be said to parallel exactly what has been heard from the White House...
...people who confer with lean, pantherlike Secretary Achille Starace of the Fascist Party in his startling office in Rome. All about are enlarged snapshots of the Pantherman in dynamic feats of prowess: Starace jumping his horse over his racing car; Starace pole-vaulting; Starace in a soaring leap across parallel bars; Starace motorcycling at 140 kilometers per hour. Up went Starace last week to Sestrieres, swank yet popular priced winter resort. There he went snugly to bed. got up early next morning, started zipping down the ski jump. Soon Starace broke his right...
...much of the current upward surge is due to the Government's truce with Business no man can say. Nevertheless, Dun & Bradstreet last week found the state of trade and sentiment so strong that they thought it foreshadowed a business revival "without parallel in modern commercial history for the abruptness of its rise and the intensity of its pursuance...
This reversion to the old diplomatic alignment is accompanied by a parallel in internal policy. Except in the City of London itself, gone are the socialist days of the '20's. The Conservative Party has maintained its strength since last year. Reform has been forgotten and, moved by a vague fear--a feeling of uncertainty--Englishmen have shown themselves more and more willing to entrust complete control of affairs to the government. Thus the so-called coalition government of Ramsay MacDonald, like the liberal ministry of Herbert Asquith, waits and prepares...