Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only in the gashouse districts of U. S. cities was a parallel to be found to the wind-up last week of California's campaign for Governor. Against Democratic Nominee Upton Sinclair and his EPIC was massed all the fire and fury of a thoroughly frightened conservative electorate...
...family life by the increasing looseness in marital relations and the scandals that are given legal sanction by certain of our courts. The menace of Reno and the appeal to foreign courts have made us a byword among the nations, and given us an unenviable distinction quite without parallel, even among so-called pagan peoples...
Wrinkles (rugae) cover the entire lining of the stomach. They all run parallel to the long axis of the stomach from the cardiac end where fresh food comes in to the pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
...structure go up, told themselves it was beginning to look more like the real thing. Readers of the first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join...
...parallel really lay between the Edwards case and that of Chester E. Gillette; of Cortland, N. Y. which Author Dreiser had drably copied into his book, even to giving his hero the same initials?Clyde Griffith. It was 28 years ago that Chester Gillette, raised in a sternly religious atmosphere, got a job as foreman in a rich relative's collar factory. He took up with a pretty factory girl, Grace Brown, but, by the time she became pregnant, Gillette, socially ambitious, had been taken up by another girl, an "heiress." He took Grace Brown to Big Moose Lake...