Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course in expected to parallel that now being offered by the Business School in Business Ethics, and will consist of 36 lectures throughout the year. It will not be counted for credit towards the degree of LL.D.; Dean Pound declined to make a statement when questioned as to whether or not the course would be made compulsory for first-year students...
...their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...
Among other big air transport operators the name of smart Errett Lobban Cord has been anything but hallowed. He established Century and Century Pacific Lines parallel to "pioneer" services. Equipping his lines with his own cheaply operated Stinson tri-motors, he forced fares down. In his efforts to get airmail contracts he persuaded many a Congressman that the Government pays too much money to have its mail flown. In no quarter was he less popular than with American Airways (operating subsidiary of Aviation Corp.) which went before the Arizona Corporation Commission to thwart his competition in the Southwest (TIME, March...
...pointed out that the new experimental colleges are not a House plan. Whether, they will be housed in dormitories is left to the results of future experiments. But the parallel of the House Plan and the experimental colleges is important because both plans have similar ideals and methods. Under the Harvard plan House autonomy is completely sacrificed to the University; Dr. Meiklejohn's colleges will be absolutely independent...
When the animal is placed upon the plane in a position parallel to the base, the gravitational pull upon the two sides of the body is different. This differential effect produces a torque; which occurs as the animal starts to climb upward and is mechanically turned around until he reaches a position where the pull becomes the same on the two sides of the body. Here the torque disappears, and the animal can now proceed forward in a straight line. This line or path the animal takes forms an acute angle with the base of the plane and the magnitude...