Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years after Yamashita was hanged, Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda stood a six months' international trial in Tokyo on charges similar to the Yamashita case. He was acquitted when it was shown that he had no knowledge of the crimes, although he was in technical command of the men who committed them...
Working in a similar field was a 68-year-old Swiss physiologist, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, director of Zurich University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
...Millionaires", the idea is similar, but this two-act play covers much less ground than "Man and Superman," which has something to say about almost everything. Both plays deal with the affirmative man, who is in this case, an Egyptian doctor. This time, the Hell is on earth, and in the pursuit of its pleasures are a wealthy restless millionaires, her puerile sportsman of a husband, and their respective lovers. In the end, the millionaires finds a purpose for the power of money which she and her father have been accumulating for its own sake, in the doctor whom...
Princeton's clubs are completely independent of the college except for the Gentlemen's Agreement, similar to Harvard's parietal rules...
...brave new field of Social Relations is a pretty complex one. Harvard set up its department three years ago, when anthropology, sociology, and psychology began to overlap at their edges. Similar departments are now turning up all over the country...