Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eyck proposal and patriotically brandished it as one good reason why Canada should reject the St. Lawrence treaty. At St. John's, Que., the Chamber of Commerce unanimously demanded that the U. S. give Canada all of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine north of the 45° parallel in exchange for U. S. rights to use the Canadian section of the St. Lawrence...
...summary of Japan's rebuttal appeared the day before in the Tokyo Press. This summary recalled an embarrassing precedent: in setting up Manchukuo she did no more than Theodore Roosevelt did in sending Marines to help Panama's revolution against Colombia. Well circulated in the world Press, the Panama parallel was tactfully removed from the official text...
...land, the area of which is 4129 square feet, with the buildings thereon is situated at and now numbered 107 Plympton Street and 11 Riverview Avenue. Riverview Avenue is the short street running parallel to Memorial Drive and separated from it by a grass plot in front of McKinlock and Gore Halls. At present a portion of the University's newly acquired land is used for a residence: the remainder is devoted to a parking place used by residents of Lowell and Winthrop Houses...
...proceed with recommendations to the Congress until I can have an opportunity to confer with you personally. . . . There are also other important questions as to which I think an interchange of views will be in the public interest. ... A world economic conference will be held during the coming winter. . . . Parallel with this is the Disarmament Conference...
...that the line is so rundown that it will cost $733,000 to make its unballasted, steep right-of-way fit for through traffic. Last week the I. C. C. told F. & N. that unless it sells out for $200,000 S. P. will be granted permission to build parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only $1,153,000 and would put F. & N. out of business. The "parallel track threat'' will never serve to arbitrate differences between major railroads, but railroadmen last week thought the I. C. C. had found a potent way to drag small...