Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost in the scuppers was the scheme to promote the naval air arm by making Rear Admiral John H. Towers, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, a vice admiral and vice chief of naval operations for air. Lost too was a parallel program to relieve a shortage of high-ranking aviators by promoting a number of younger naval airmen on Towers' coattails...
...Moscow-Rostov railway, which runs parallel to, and just west of, the Don along part of its course, connects the capital with southern Russia and the Caucasus, and, like the river, feeds much of Russia's industrial and military machine...
...diminished after the late Rt. Rev. Sir David Hunter-Blair, onetime abbot of a monastery on the Scottish lakeside, announced: "I have been investigating its presence quietly for many years, having a natural hesitance in letting my friends know that I believed in the existence of a fresh-water parallel of the sea serpent." After all, the Rt. Rev. Sir David was once chamberlain to Pope Pius...
These special Committees have always made a practice of consulting intimately with Student Council Committees established to deal with parallel problems. Although their formal authority ranks lowest in the official hierarchy, Student Council members have always been accorded full hearings, and their recommendations are often considered in full Faculty meetings. Many of the recent changes in Harvard's makeup have been conceived by the Council, studied by a Faculty Committee, voted by the Faculty, inaugurated by the Corporation, and then given the final stamp of approval by the omnipotent Board of Overseers...
...keeping, but the Peabody is now in a transitional period designed to transform what was fundamentally an exhibition hall into a means for training students in the science of anthropology. In this conection, the Department of Anthropology is virtually inseparable from the Museum, for each moves in parallel courses, and each shares their personnel and resources. Materials for the study of anthropology are gathered chiefly by the Museum and at its expense; the administration of the Museum is in its own hands; active instruction receive their whole compensation from the Departments, their work in the Museum being voluntary. Research...