Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century by Germany's Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. To this day the world's gymnasts follow the etiquette as well as the exercises established on his Turnplatz. They approach their specialties with exaggerated posturings and goose-step tread, perform with Teutonic precision. Besides the apparatus events (horizontal bar, parallel bars, side horse, long horse, flying rings and balance beam), championship tournaments include rope-climbing, Indian clubs, calisthenics, tumbling...
...long front yard facing the Atlantic Ocean, with a big back pasture behind the Appalachian fence. The country was shut off from the Pacific by Mexico in California, and the British claims to the Oregon territory. During 1846, the U.S. occupied the Pacific coast from the 49th parallel to Lower California, and became a continental power. At the same time the stage was cleared for a new issue: Who was going to run this continental power-the free-labor North and West, or the slave-labor South? "At some time between August and December, 1846," says Historian DeVoto, "the Civil...
...University must not consider its present plans sufficient. The Globe's announcement may not in fact be part of the reforms now being considered, but that does not mean its substance is undesirable. In effect, it is a reiteration of the earlier proposal of the Teachers' Union that parallel liberal arts courses be combined to preserve for the duration as much of the liberal arts curriculum as possible. There have always been classes in the University in which such a combination would have been desirable; the war is only increasing the number of courses in which purely masculine enrollment...
Reinforced Japanese troops switched last week from defense to attack. Three divisions of Japs, by their usual method of wily infiltration, moved north through Burma's matted jungle, over Burma's ragged ridges. British troops fell back up the Mayu River. In a parallel retreat, Indian troops withdrew along the Kaladan River, hurriedly cut across the Mayu Peninsula to avoid encirclement...
Frank Hobbs credits his happy labor relations to two main factors: 1) he thinks 500 men are all any man can handle on a personal basis, has kept his force at that number; 2) he has his men work in competing teams on parallel production lines, so that when a man is absent he not only ruins his team's record but loses his team position (though not his job) when he returns. (Pacific Huts is a closed shop...