Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the eastern anchor of the Mannerheim Line still held fast to the Taipale River, the Finns' retreat in the west had brought their western defense line parallel to their whole line of communications. This meant that if the line broke anywhere the rest of the front-line troops would be cut off from their supplies. And so last week the Finns began retreating in the middle of the isthmus, swinging their army back like a door, with Viipuri as the hinge. To the north and west of Viipuri civilians were cleared out of towns and villages, while...
...parallel usage, cf. Hamlet, gravedigger scene: "Quite chop-fallen." Webster gives prat, Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, prat or pratt. Example: "We ain't to do nothing . . . but to set down upon our prats...
...Court will be on in the minds of the people, and that which the people desire and reverence will retain elements of real power. But in what direction will it be exercised? That is the real question. And the answer lies, it may safely be ventured, in a parallel query: what will be the future relationship between the executive and the legislative branches of government...
...ordinary topaz crystal weighs but a few ounces and is about one inch or less in diameter. The Harvard topaz is eighteen inches in diameter and described as a "short prismatic" crystal. It is white in color, with inclusions of dark manganese minerals distributed in parallel streaks...
...American college chapel, our own included," be continued, "is a unique phenomenon in church history, without any considerable precedent in the past and without present parallel in most other lands...