Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny, warm December morning last week, at Fort Benning, Ga., Armored Force officers got their first look at the new bridge. Instead of boats it has collapsible floats of rubber fabric; instead of planks, parallel steel treadways, 15 ft. long...
Drawing the parallel between the United States Navy with its disaster at Peal Harbor, and the 1941 Harvard football team which came through to ultimate victory after early season setbacks at the hands of Pennsylvania and Cornell, Coach Dick Harlow sounded the keynote at the Harvard Club Victory dinner last night, urging that to gain ultimate victory we must "never lose faith in ourselves as a nation...
...Japan and the U.S. began their talks with the arrival of Ambassador Nomura last spring. In the middle of them, Japan invaded Indo-China. There is a deadly parallel with the current Kurusu talks and Japan's gestures toward Thailand...
...concerned because of the Japanese parallel with Hitler's method of first encircling a country he intends to attack. With Japanese-mandated islands east and Japanese land bases west, the Philippines are in a horseshoe open only at the southern...
Something like Information Please, something like Invitation to Learning, Any Questions? has no exact parallel in U.S. radio. But it might have if the U.S. people were ever moved by a hard war to submit, to some suitably entertaining authority, their questions about the world...