Word: passu
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...delight in the English language. He runs words through his fingers like doubloons. He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of formulations from the Greek or Latin (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand. Lacking the Latinate, he goes to the Latin - "pari passu," "tu quoque." Either you enjoy these linguistic plumage displays, as I do, or else you think he is merely showing...
...with a conundrum: A gain for one team is a loss for the other. One side's good, pari passu, is the other's evil. Such are the stakes. One side has "possession." Who, or what, then, is "possessed?" And with what satanic implications? This is a question that drives postmodern man to crush an empty beer can on his forehead--and even to open another...
...tariff against Cuba and they objected to Philippine free trade in this commodity. There is no question that they were perfectly justified in wishing to end the competition of American and Philippine sugar production. But American capital had previously overdeveloped cane plantations in Cuba; and the depression coming pari passu with high tariff was the cause of the present unrest. From the consumer's point of view these tariffs against Cuban sugar are unfortunate; the American growers cannot satisfactorily supply the market demand, and Cuban sugar is cheaper and of a higher grade. If the Philippine production could...
...With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...
...honorable and gallant gentleman" was guilty of redundancy. Pari passu means simultaneously and equally. * "The noble lord" was wrong. With the exception of Bengal and the Central Provinces, the Act has had a fair chance which is proved by its success...