Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meekly following the dictates of their instruction books, hearing the gratuitous advice and stories which will everywhere be given them during the next few days, few can realize what changes have taken place even under the eyes of present upperclassmen. When 1932 was welcomed to Harvard with a parallel series of gatherings and entertainments, there was no House Plan; Freshmen eagerly sought to live in Smith, Standish, Gore, or McKinlock; there was an Appleton Chapel, and Wigglesworth was non-existent. Architecturally, Cambridge could hardly be recognized as its present self. Even officially, first year men received different treatment, with...
Since 1920 U. S. population's centre moved 22.3 mi. west and 7.6 mi. south. In 1790 this theoretical spot was 23 mi. east of Baltimore, has advanced 589 mi. westward along the 39th parallel in 140 years. Biggest advance-80.6 mi.-occurred in the seventh decade...
...four oldtime U. S. songs and a fantastic Frohsinn (Cheerfulness) to music of Paul Linke. Together they danced a charming Idyll by Roy Stoughton. Schoolchildren danced a "visualization" of the first move ment of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony: a "synchoric orchestra" of dancers which was meant to parallel the instrumentation of the score. Then Miss St. Denis, surrounded by young men from the West Side Y. M. C. A., appeared as "The Prophetess" in a dance-drama to the music of "Mars" from Gustav von Hoist's suite, The Planets. Many an observer found its symbology muddled...
...sold on heat units instead of cubic feet (natural gas has nearly twice as many B. T.U. as manufactured gas). Apparently most sure of its success is Continental Construction Corp., the builder, for last week this concern announced that by the end of 1932 it will build a parallel line with 30-inch pipe, shoot natural gas from the South past Chicago, into New England...
Warner executives were giving their final approval to this gruesome but improving homily when, last week, in a Manhattan thoroughfare, erratic bullets from real gangsters' guns killed one and wounded four other urchins (see p. 14). Quick to evaluate a somewhat far fetched parallel between this tragedy and the plot of The Star Witness, Warner executives hurried the premiere of the picture, advertised it as "a weapon . . . to stamp out . . . gangsters and their illicit breed," devoted the proceeds of the first showing to the families of Manhattan's small victims...