Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany's "assisted capitalism" had run head-on into Germany's poverty of resources-a circumstance which was to have an ominous parallel 25 years later...
Chungking to five square miles of an eminence 150 ft. above the rivers. Inside walled Chungking the streets, now pitted with holes filled with water for fire prevention, rise steeply, often in steps, between flimsy wooden buildings crammed with refugees and Government offices. Across its congestion Japanese bombers laid parallel lines of destruction, a mile and a half long, 500 yards wide. They dropped more than 100 bombs...
...Parallel? To nervous Europeans behind their taut frontiers, last week's events seemed as world-shaking as those of the fateful summer of 1914. No ordinary diligence caused Premier Edouard Daladier to call a meeting of the French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...
...Harvard extra-curricular project has given such promise of future significance; incorporating as it does some of the best brains--faculty and undergraduate--in the University's English, Music, Government and Physics departments, it presages an era of Harvard leadership in the development of radio technique which may well parallel the ascendancy of Professor George Baker's 47 Workshop in the field of the drama...
...reading Marx, Engels and Lenin, Haldane became a Marxist. The natural result of this was a book. The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences. which Author Haldane published last fort night.* He believes, as does many another, that Marxism is the most scientific of all political philosophies, draws many a parallel between the evolution of society and the evolution of science...