Word: parallel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Significance. Plainly these parallel statements indicate well-nigh complete agreement between Britain and the U. S. A two-power treaty could have been signed any day last week. But the great issue of whether France will concede parity to Italy ?as Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...
...most important books on the Harper list will be published on February 19th: "The 42nd Parallel", the first novel in three years by John Dos Passos...
...species which constitute this relic-flora must have lived right through the last glacial period where they are; and a study of the other regions of the Northern Hemisphere which were not invaded by the last ice-sheets has shown an exactly parallel situation. In these spots, then, we have relies of an ancient flora which in regions of very recent glaciation has been completely exterminated. From a purely evolutionary point of view, these old plants are particularly interesting because they are species with very sharply defined characteristics and are now so fixed in their fundamental characters that they show...
...parallel U. S. air path between San Francisco and New York is 2,700 miles...
...made to relieve the congestion of the courts and generally to repair and lubricate the entire machinery of enforcement, while the thrifty Mr. Mellon has long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...