Word: paralleled
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...find a parallel for this cruelty, and at the same time the origin of our name "stool pigeon," in The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania, a book compiled some years ago by Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, at present U. S. minister to Bulgaria...
...Chase seeks a measure of consolation with the guess "that a parallel study for Yale or Princeton would prove even more melancholy." Whether he is correct or not in this surmise is unimportant. The fact remains that college men as a whole are not entering the field of politics, but at the same time are as rigorous as any in expressing their dissatisfaction with the government of today...
...similar yet as opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics...
...Nelson '31, who has given student instruction in the past at Tufts College and the Young Mens Christian Union, is conducting a 4 o'clock class on parallel bars, the horse and other heavy apparatus. For undergraduates who like music with their exercise, there is a 5 o'clock class in free arm drills which is conducted to the rhythm of popular selections...
Never unduly optimistic, British politicians of all three parties seemed to feel that the conference is bound to fail. From the jail in which St. Gandhi sits reports issued recently that he will try to set up in India a "parallel government." If this outlandish scheme is tried, self-appointed Gandhites will try to duplicate all the functions of the Government of India. They already have their own "police" who try and are frequently permitted to keep order at Gandhite mass demonstrations when the regular police find themselves swamped by numbers...