Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ventotene Island, one of the Ponza group. Said Correspondent Steinbeck: he had missed Benito Mussolini by less than twelve hours. "I talked with a number of inhabitants. They said Mussolini assured them he would return to power and re-establish the Fascist regime, comparing himself presently with Napoleon-the parallel being Napoleon's exile on Elba...
...were the doctrines of heroic activism and the satisfaction of demand, according to Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, speaking this week at the fifth of a series of seven discussions entitled "Liberalism in A World At War." Perry explained to the audience that his views were parallel to those of the famous American psychologist and philosopher, and therefore, the statements he made during the meeting could be taken as the expressed beliefs of William James...
...week the British were over the city. This time Nazi interceptors with searchlights in their noses had climbed above them, circling through the high thin air, dropping brilliantly burning white flares. A British pilot steered his Halifax toward his target, watching the flares float down around him in parallel lanes. His navigator counted 50 flares "going down even more slowly than a leaf falls." In the eerily lighted sky world, half a thousand Nazi fighters fell on the attackers. Some of the British were sent plunging into the city's streets. An uncounted number of Nazi fighters were shot...
Possibilities. Whatever move Soviet Russia makes, it makes no move haphazardly. There was concerted purpose in the sharp demands for a second front in Europe, in the official displeasure at being excluded from the Quebec conference, in the recall of Maisky and Litvinoff and the parallel with 1939. Joseph Stalin was saying that Russia does not necessarily have to accept the British-U.S. blueprint for war and peace; that if Russia disapproves the plans of its Western allies, if Britain and the U.S. ignore Russian demands and desires, Russia does indeed have a choice...
...catch some of these readers, Goodspeed last week issued The Goodspeed Parallel New Testament (University of Chicago Press; $2), in which his version and the King James are printed in parallel columns...