Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During alarms, Correspondent Jacoby's wife "filed her nails over and over again." Twice she nearly filed them to the quick. The first time was when they sighted eight Jap warships steaming parallel to them in line. But the enemy-presumably damaged ships heading home for repairs-paid no attention to them...
...transformation of Padilla from a revolutionist in the hills to a man of property is a parallel to the transformation of Mexico. As a young politician, Padilla well remembered that the U.S. in 1846 fought Mexico over the uncertain Texas boundary and ended by taking a third of Mexico's territory, that it got another piece (by purchase) in 1853, that in 1914 it landed Marines at Vera Cruz, that it sent Black Jack Pershing into Mexico to chase Villa in 1916-all humiliations imposed by a big neighbor on a smaller...
Thus the President impaled his armchair critics on the parallel of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, dead 2,101 years. The toasting was well-timed. But still unsolved, by Lucius Aemilius Paulus or by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one great problem of a democracy in wartime: Where does legitimate criticism end and subversive criticism begin...
...past three years there has been a violent reduction in the number of concentrators in Economics with the 372 of November 1939 down to 267 last November. The department attributes the drop, in the main, to the parallel decline of long terms for younger staff members. This rapid turnover has made for a less experienced Faculty and a slackening of student interest...
Said the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM : "The parallel between what is happening to the infant prefab industry in 1942 and what happened to the infant automobile industry in 1916, '17 and '18 is inescapable. World War I created a mass demand for cars and trucks which made possible the economics of mass production that, in turn, created a mass market for postwar sales. World War II is repeating the first part of this process with housing, may bring the second as surely as the chicken follows...