Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rhinoceroses trod this ground, the gigantic Andrewsarchus, greatest of all known flesh-eating land mammals, prowled at night, and fed upon the bodies of dying titanotheres. It was a world of nightmare creatures. The high plateaus of Africa today with their open plains and sparse forests offer a convincing parallel to ancient Mongolia...
...fire station will be of Colonial architecture, designed to harmonize with the surrounding buildings of the College. it will consist of a main building, parallel to Broadway, and a wing, parallel to Quincy Street. The main building will be of brick, three and one-half stories high, topped with a state roof and a belfry. The wing will be of wood and two stories in height only. The station will contain the fire apparatus for this vicinity...
Bang! The second bullet drilled into Mayor Cermak's belly, on the right, just below the ribs. He crumpled to his knees. Blood oozed through his white shirt, making a narrow rectangle parallel to his belt...
...presented with a fountain pen and writing case by the Women's National Press Club, said she might use them to write an autobiography. ''There have been so many stories written about me," said she, "that I've been thinking of writing one myself in parallel columns, with the fiction ... in one column and the facts in the other. Stories like the one about my having manned a gun in China during the Boxer uprising. ... I assure you I never manned a gun in China or anywhere else, or used one except on hunting trips...
From the 18th Century until just recently (c. 1951) even ichthyologists believed this fish climbed trees. The new explanation (v. John Roxbrough Norman's History of Fishes, published 1931) is parallel to that of the catfish incident: that birds seized them as they wriggled along on the ground, and placed them in crotches of trees possibly for future...