Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign delegates to the disarmament conference, including Alanson B. Houghton, former United States ambassador. Only the greatly amplified broadcast of Senator Borah's speech could be heard above the tumult. The admonitions and chidings of Edward Herriot, former premier, were of no avail in the face of discourtesy without parallel...
Battles. Japanese last week dominated every capital of Manchurian provinces except Tsitsihar. Conflict raged in a series of short battles and hot skirmishes up & down the Nonni River and the roughly parallel Taonan-Angangki Railway. Facing Tsitsihar, the Japanese field commander, Major General Hasebe, had the sluggish river on his left, the railway on his right. Wide swamplands made the Japanese left wing impregnable against Chinese attack. But against the exposed Japanese right wing General Ma flung his cavalry in charge after Chinese charge. On the centre of the battle front both armies were entrenched, fought each other with every...
...order to fulfill completely their purpose should offer at least one course in current events and current problems. Empire, decay, and revolution, the clash of arms, the fall of thrones, are apt to assume the color of recollection only, a reminiscent haze of things past, untouched by any parallel with these soberer days. To view the past through the small end of the telescope, through the present, would be a refreshing aid in the drive for historical proportion...
Significance. Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...student concentrating in English who intends to continue in the graduate field English 3a is an indispensable course provided, however, he follows it in the last half-year with English 3b, Mr. Kittredge's course in Beowulf. To conclude one's study of Old English with 3a is to parallel the almost proverbial observation about ending one's classical career with Caesar. It is an elementary course conducted at breakneck speed to enable the student to do considerable reading in the chronicles, leechdoms, and the amusing lives of the saints. Then there are occasional bright spots in the form...