Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Responsibility for administering the "General Education" program would be vested in a faculty committee whose responsibilities would parallel those of a normal department of the University. The men selected would determine which current courses were satisfactory "general" courses and what new courses were demanded. In addition, the committee would have the normal routine duties of budget administration, accrediting students, and consideration of special student problems in a field the keynote of whose administration is to be flexibility...
...zone in Korea ran up to the 38th parallel. From the Russian zone north of there came reports that Soviet influence was being consolidated by Communists, picked from the thousands of Koreans who had fought in the Red Army. Moscow described the Communists as busily organizing meetings, electing town councils...
...Soviet attack was many-pronged. From Manchouli on the west, armored spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...
Military observers in Washington agreed, cited a significant parallel: last September, when Admiral Halsey began pounding the Philippines, the Jap flyers refused to come up and fight. But in October, at Leyte and in January at Luzon the Japs had plenty of planes ready for the invasion ships...
...parallel problem for the commission would be the future of other intergovernmental agreements and bodies such as the International Labor Organization. The British wanted to incorporate the I.L.O. into the new organization. There was strong opposition from Russia, which was expelled from the I.L.O. in 1940 after she attacked Finland; less opposition from the U.S. and others. Large sections of organized labor opposed the I.L.O. because of its tripartite representation (labor, management, government...