Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Cambridge began to organize its system of wardens, fireman, and policeman, it faced the problem of finding a place to drill. The University, undertaking a parallel task, was handicapped by a lack of equipment and trained instructors. They agreed to swap. Cambridge got the use of Memorial Hall; the University was given an opportunity to train its fireman in the station on Harvard Street. Since that first step, plans for even more cooperation have been made and carried to completion. Fire and plane spotters, for example, will be stationed atop Memorial Hall, Widener, and the Houses, for these...
Chief influence of the current war on these three departments has been the necessity of a broad shifting of emphasis to specific training and practical courses. There is a "heavy demand" now for trained chemists and a parallel move towards the more practical phases of biological study. Mineralogy, both because of its small size and the nature of its material, has been the least affected of this trio...
...snobbery as a nation is without parallel...
...weeks Axis planes have kept up a concentrated bombing effort on Malta that has no parallel in this war. Operating 24 hours a day, Axis high-level and dive-bombers have raided the island over 150 times since Jan. 1. As many as 17 alarms have occurred in 24 hours...
...Arlington High graduates, now Freshmen here, continued their parallel careers when both were notified last Saturday of government appointments, one to West Point, the other to Annapolis...