Word: parallels
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Last year a member of the Harvard Student Union wrote to the Crimson: "The parallel of 1914 and 1940 should not, however, make pessimists of us. In 1914 the ideals of the military scientists won out simply because undergraduates were not strong enough or unified enough to make their ideas prevail. It seems to me that we have much more militant peace organizations, and that we have learned something from the failure of 1914-17. Nevertheless, it is obvious that if we are going to put our ideas into practice we will have to work quickly. We will have...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics. The memo recalls that World War I's first 16 months brought no price rise, that as late as December 1915 wholesale prices were only 6% above 1913, living costs only 5%. The early part of World War II presents a close parallel: when it started, the wholesale price level was 74.6% of the 1926 level, had been declining almost steadily ever since the end of the 1937 inflation...
Jefferson is one of the two U. S. Presidents (the other: Lincoln) who did not claim membership in any church. But he spent his spare evenings at the White House and Monticello with paste pot and shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear of being "exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies" kept him from ever publishing it. The Government later bought the manuscript from his family, placed it in the Smithsonian, where it still remains...
...country is becoming South American conscious and the interest is reflected in Harvard record collections. Xavier Cugat and his rumbas and congas are the hits of the minute. Tunes like "Down Argentine Way" parallel the tango bands' success...
Until competent centers can be developed, the Crimson sextet can not be expected to run into high scoring figures, but it is Hodder's hope that the team will parallel this year's football eleven in the course of running through its schedule...