Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flay a man alive in the classic Oriental fashion begin by making two long parallel cuts 21/2 inches apart. Loosen one end of the strip of skin between the cuts, grasp firmly, and then tear off the strip. Repeat until the victim is completely skinned...
...there the parallel ends, for the fabled dog opened his mouth to growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...
...highest tenth salary group." He concluded: "While I do not believe that success in life can be rated by income, I do believe that as between one man and another working in the same business organization, success and salary-while not the same thing-will, generally speaking, parallel each other...
...admirable coincidence of publication of the twin comments on Harvard sheds peculiar illumination on the nature of much criticism of America and her educational methods. The competence of the Englishman to judge a national problem of education that has neither parallel nor similarity throughout the world, is seriously to be questioned. It is fortuitously true in the present instance that an English student who spent a year at Princeton has signified faith in an achieved progress that seventy-five years before could only be hoped for by another Englishman who was, to say the least, conservative in his hopes...
...subject taken up at the Congress was "The Student in the Community and as a Citizen." To the various phases of this subject the discussion groups were apportioned, including groups to discuss student government, the honor system, fraternities, curriculum, training for public careers, and athletics. Parallel to these discussion groups were the open meetings of the six standing committees on finance, travel, curriculum, international relations, publicity, and organization. These meetings served a purpose similar to that of the discussion groups, except that they were based on the activities of permanent committees which had been working for the past year...