Word: parallel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weld Boathouse. After preliminary heats and trials, the finals will be held at the end of the week. To winners in the singles or comp class trophies consisting of miniature shells are given, while winners in the wherry class are presented with a shield-shaped plaque surmounted by parallel oars...
Back when the first World War was something, for interventionists to sell, the Class of 1918 began a spring social event with an unusual title and erratic make-up to parallel the Junior Dance and Senior Spread. Vocal competitions were its core of attraction with a reception, concept, buffet supper, and a dance tossed in "to attract even those who hitherto have taken no pleasure in listening to men's choruses...
Siberia still lacks sufficient railroads, and the Trans-Siberian is dangerously near the Manchukuoan border and Japanese bombers. But long ago the Russians began building a parallel line from Taishet 2,000 miles east...
...pupils still attending the school life goes on pretty much as usual, with improvised athletics, dances, dramatics, and walks around the green, garden-like acres. Among the students, track and baseball are now the vogue in the sports world. By fastening a piece of string to a wire running parallel to the track, the competitors, guided by holding the string in their hand, can race in a straight line. Baseball is played, for the most part, by those who can see a little, but the other forms of entertainment, such as singing and dancing can be enjoyed...
France Found. The rue de la Huchette runs parallel to the left bank of the Seine for some 300 yards. On one corner stood a tiny police station. Usually the cops tried to chase the drunks, their commonest clientele, into another precinct. The Paris police, says Author Paul, were "almost saintly ... in their gentleness and understanding." But one night a smalltime thief tried to break into a store. "When surprised by the even more astonished agents," the marauder wounded one of them. "He was kicked to death that night, on the cold stone floor of our little .local station...