Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capone should prove to have been connected with the kidnapping of the baby, or if he should prove able to find him, the case will be without parallel in history. But though this is the most curious aspect of the situation, it is by no means the most important. The possibility that Capone should have arranged such a colossal and ingenious scheme and the probability, made clearer since the appeal to Bitz and Spitale, that special concessions and even release will be given Capone, are powerful challenges to complacent Americanism. They are indictments of the government of the United States...
...Stavsky, tutor in Animal Psychology is conducting an experiment in an attempt to investigate the orientation of different animal forms in a field of gravitational force. A rat or a guinea pig is placed upon an inclined plane in a position parallel to the base of the plane. The animal is negatively geotropic, that is, it naturally tends to climb up when placed upon a sloping surface...
...Parallel bars--won by J. R. Kalisch '88, second, C. M. Agrees '33, third, W. P. Freese...
...organized gymnasium work has been carried on this winter, chiefly under the supervision of W. B. Nelson '31. In veiw of the attraction of the more competitive intramural sports; the number of men reporting for the classes is larger than was anticipated. The five events to be held are; parallel bars, horizontal bar, side horse, flying rings, and tumbling; two optional routines will be performed by each contestant in the event in which he is entered...
...divisions of troops or about 5,000 men in the immediate vicinity. Since Japan has all rights between Shanghai and the Yangtze river where the Woosung forte are located they are occupying the entire river line to the north and east against a line of Chinese troops drawn up parallel to the river...