Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract with Hurok and took her troupe to London, where they packed Covent Garden for two months. Thereupon Manager Hurok imported the Russian troupe from South America and bolstered it up with the peerless Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks of London) and other favorites. Then the two companies booked parallel autumn seasons, and the battle...
...noticeable spring in his step. In the stands Saturday, the hymns of praise that echoed skyward every time he tied his shoelaces or adjusted his helmet were strangely reminiscent of Fenway, where the crowd blows its top every time Ted Williams gets a base on balls. Let no parallel be drawn between the two athletes themselves...
...begin to see, I believe, a definite Catholic spearhead rising to do battle with the embryonic Brotherhood-of-Man religion based on Communist lines. The early Christian movement met something of the same opposition, but probably a closer parallel can be found in the history of the rise of Mohammedanism...
...wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...
...Christmastime 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Pius XII: ". . . It would give me great satisfaction to send to you my personal representative in order that our parallel endeavors for peace and the alleviation of suffering may be assisted." The representative turned out to be 72-year-old ex-steel tycoon Myron Charles Taylor...