Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach American seas was concerned, the U. S. had already made its choice. Supplies, implements of war were being shipped to England with all possible speed. Franklin Roosevelt did not reveal what he had in mind but it was just possible that his thoughts ran parallel to those which were voiced last week by the English magazine Aeroplane; "Americans have elected to keep [the war] at a distance by arming the one nation which seems to have a chance of holding it off. . . . They will have to take a share in securing delivery of the goods if they want their...
...wrote: "I began to get a sort of broad picture of what had gone on in Maine and New England in the old days. . . . It dawned on me that nobody had ever written it-nobody: not even historians. . . . I believe the experiences of the Northern army are almost without parallel in the history of War; but out of what history can you get an understanding of it? Not out of one damned history. Or out of ten. And if that isn't a show-up for our historians. . . ." Privately he has said with unprintable interpolations: "They...
...transfer of 50 overage destroyers from the U. S. to the British navy is without precedent in history. However, I am inclined to believe that the spirit behind this obvious assistance is not new. A striking parallel attitude can be found in Britain's second Chinese...
...same 92 standard elements from some of which earth's life is formed appear to be universal. No one, even with the most powerful microscope, has ever seen an atom. But modern astronomy, by splitting starlight in spectroscopes where atoms leave their signatures in parallel lines, has identified chemical elements in stars trillions and quadrillions of miles away. There is no reason to suppose that life cannot exist in worlds beyond earth for lack of suitable materials...
...course, for which Bronston presented a suggested outline, would be called "New Factors in International Relations--Latin America," and would parallel Government 30, which deals with Asia. It would analyze current events in relation to the history and government of Latin America...