Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages to frighten her. She becomes fascinated by an Oriental theory that one may be cleansed of venereal disease through sexual intercourse with a virgin child; that leads her to its spiritual parallel, the relief of her own evil through the corruption, or killing, of a pure soul. A young gypsy who happens through is just her meat. Persuading him to camp a while on her land with his wife and children, she subtly and systematically seduces, tames and corrupts...
Professor Kirsten's cycloidal propeller, as used for boats, has four to eight parallel blades projecting vertically downward, like fingers from a revolving hand. Driven by a vertical shaft the blades on one side move backward while those on the other move forward. Propulsion is obtained by a rhythmical automatic shift in the pitch of the blades so that those moving backward push flatwise against the water, while those moving forward are "feathered" to slip sidewise through it with little resistance. One advantage of this arrangement is that quick stops and reverses can be accomplished without altering the speed...
Approaching the target, the bombardier leaves his seat, crouches or lies down flat over the bombsight just below his machine gun. Quickly he checks the spirit levels to be sure that the ship is parallel to the ground, other settings that correct for the speed of the plane and the wind drift (which slows a bomb, speeds or deflects it). Then he puts his eye to the eyepiece and takes his sight on his target. From that point until the bombs are dropped the bombardier is in charge of the ship. Training his sight on the target he may well...
When Ambassador Shkvartsev's chief, Premier and Foreign Minister Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, learned of these conversations he was reminded of a historic parallel. At Tilsit Napoleon proposed to Tsar Alexander I that the two rulers share Europe. If Alexander had stuck to his agreement there would have been no Franco-Russian war. Said Viacheslav Mikhailovich to his chief, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: "Why not meditate on this example...
Everywhere Russia's interests appeared to parallel those of Great Britain. Hard-pressed Britain is no longer in a position to turn up her nose at the Soviets. And Russia, too weak to stand alone, must make treaties and alliances for protection. Unlike the pacific U. S., she is ready to fight-or aggress first-to halt aggression that seems ultimately aimed at her. Though Russia might like to run the world, for a long time to come she will settle for simple security. But so long as capitalist countries fear Communism, they will suspect Russia of sinister intentions...