Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would then decide where the World Council's interest begins and ends. But-could the U.S. reserve this right without granting Soviet Russia's right to similar jurisdiction in western Asia or in eastern Europe? Pondering this question, close to home, the U.S. may view parallel British and Russian anxieties in a new light...
...instrument's most remarkable feature is its ability to translate a plane's position into longitude and latitude. If the earth were flat and longitude lines parallel, the job would be relatively easy. But navigation engineers have long been stumped by the problem of creating an instrument which would compensate for the fact that longitude lines converge toward the earth's poles. The indicator solves this problem by means of mechanism with over 500 parts...
...Christmas statement of Vatican policy (TIME, Jan. 8). The rebuttal itself was not notable, but its tone was: it departed from L'Osservatore's custom by referring to Marshal Stalin by name and title in an editorial. It called Russia a "great country," and drew a friendly parallel between the Pope's and Stalin's ways of dealing with some matters. The editorial concluded with three asterisks, the signature of L'Osservatore's papally inspired editor, Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre...
When Hollywood gives Technicolor a free hand, the results are invariably more comparable to opera than to drama; but Hollywood seldom knows which form it is chasing. To Universal's "Can't Help Singing," the only apparent parallel, outside of cinematic predecessors, is Puccini's questionable "Girl of the Golden West...
...invites his new friends to a New Year's Eve party at the Y, the crowd there is precisely as it should be. So are the decorations and so-a typical Selznick touch-is the sailor, off at the side, solemnly working himself into a lather on the parallel bars. (Other Selznick touches: a stuffy senator asking Zack how the boys overseas are thinking politically and getting a quite unpleasant answer; a woman scolding her little boy-his name: Franklin...