Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still another subway, parallel to and west of the present units, is being built by the municipal government. Its completion will bring the total trackage of the three systems up to 688 mi., the largest city transportation network in the world. Without its vast, rumbling traction arteries which sell 4,210,000 rides a day, New York would be paralyzed. Hence few New Yorkers were not interested, last week, in a plan proposed by Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer of the Transit Commission for the city to buy back, for $489,804,000, operating control of all overhead and underground transportation...
Carefully Briton Brailsford described the system of parallel government in Bombay, whereby members of the Indian National Congress themselves marshal and police their demonstrations. He reported that the Gandhiwomen who picket shops selling British goods, and who fling themselves down to be trodden on by any Indian determined to enter, will stand aside for occidental shoppers. "The shopkeepers themselves signed a requisition to the effect that they made no complaint against this peaceful picketing, and for a time there were few arrests...
...because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish pipsqueak from St. Petersburg, stranded penniless at a village inn, was mistaken for a tsarist inspector whose coming has been announced and for whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made...
...find a parallel for this cruelty, and at the same time the origin of our name "stool pigeon," in The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania, a book compiled some years ago by Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, at present U. S. minister to Bulgaria...
...Chase seeks a measure of consolation with the guess "that a parallel study for Yale or Princeton would prove even more melancholy." Whether he is correct or not in this surmise is unimportant. The fact remains that college men as a whole are not entering the field of politics, but at the same time are as rigorous as any in expressing their dissatisfaction with the government of today...