Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1941 was not indeed the U.S. of the months before the Civil War; President Roosevelt was not President Lincoln; the new war that the U.S. was entering was not the War between the States. But Willkie's parallel was striking...
...fourth year of war sputtered out in fitful silence, the four million soldiers stretched from Mongolia to Canton kept their eyes fixed on the silent, inactive, parallel lines of hate. But far back of either side of the lines the painful activities of the struggle dragged along unabated on the weary home fronts...
...high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time meets. As a high-school junior, he often cleared...
...Palmyra, Aleppo. The two columns coming from the northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
...Pearl Nightingale of the Philadelphia Turners: the U.S. gymnastic championship; for the second time; with a total of 135.3 points; at New York's Turn Verein. In winning the title, Mrs. Nightingale also won the side-horse-vault and the parallel-bars championships, finished second in the flying rings...