Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millenniums and a quarter later, last week, Adolf Hitler's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes...
...Plan. A Supreme Allied Economic Council will parallel and backstop the efforts of the Supreme Allied War Council. It will be divided into six component executive committees, for joint action with respect to aviation, munitions & war materials, oil, food, shipping, economic warfare. Much collaboration is already afoot by Allied commissions in some of these fields. Importance of establishing a Supreme Economic Council is to insure that certain basic principles are observed all down the line. As announced last week, three of these principles...
...Parallel. Just as today the fate of The Netherlands Empire leans on the fate of the British Empire, so the colonial history of The Indies roughly parallels that of British-owned India: a period of government by the Dutch East India Co., followed by The Netherlands Government taking over; ruthless suppression of native resistance; enforced labor as a "tribute" to the "Motherland"; a change of masters for eleven years during the Napoleonic wars when the British temporarily took the islands; institution of puppet native rulers who are always "advised" by a resident Dutchman; gradual, systematic improvement of colonial Government, bringing...
...when the classes first began, their site was in the former Freshman Athletic Building, now used by three was changed to the old Hemenway Gymnasium, whence at length the classes arrived at their present location, a third story indoor Athletic Building room filled with medicine balls, stools, mats, ladders parallel to the floor and walls, and other weird apparatus...
France, he said, is fighting now for a reason precisely parallel to the U. S.'s reason last time. "France was not attacked. But she has taken up arms in defense of a principle . . . that small nations have the same right to live as large nations, if civilization is to endure...