Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...histories of Doubleday, Page & Co. and World's Work have not been parallel. The company has always prospered. The magazine has, as magazines will, languished from time to time...
...parallel would be if elegant Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair should suddenly appear as a vegetable-eating, hairy-chested Nudist. An acknowledged leader of Parisian society, always (heretofore) impeccably dressed, great-grandson of Chevalier de Groiseillez? who was a noble governor of Flanders, Andre de Fouquieres shares with silk- stocked Berry Wall and wasp-waisted Marquis Boni de Castellane the title of Last of the Dandies...
...figures particularly emphasize the lack of adequate indoor facilities essential to winter athletics. The completion of the new gymnasium will remedy this condition, and should prove a stimulus to increased participation in all winter activities. Parallel to the transference of undergraduate indoor sports to the new center the graduate schools will be able to expand from their present restricted hours to a fuller utilization of the old gymnasium...
...parallel appointment of an undergraduate secretary marks an attempt to bring the Union more closely into touch with the desires and needs of its members. With the progress of the House Plan the eating arrangements of the Union will attract a smaller patronage, and it is hoped that there will be an increased emphasis on its social activities. In this direction undergraduate management should prove a useful innovation...
...When I was in China, the technique of beheading was explained to me as follows: Under the Empire, the headsman was a professional man, who used his great beheading sword in one hand, holding the handle as one would a dagger with the back of the blade extending back parallel to his forearm. Beheading was done by a single slice with the long blade instead of a chop. For a consideration from the condemned or his friends the headsman would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that the ignominy of complete decapitation was avoided. Cases were reported here...