Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rising wrath of the cloistered dwellers in the vicinity of Harvard hall will make them feel a regretful sympathy with Princeton men at the recent edict in regard to bells and clappers. Edward A. McMillan, orange counterpart of Mr. Apted, has recently raised the fine imposed on pilferers of the college clapper from thirty to fifty dollars. So rudely does one of Princeton's fine old traditions suffer a financial reverse. At Harvard twins and their overshadowing elder brothers...
...airplanes and sledges toward the South Pole, establishing camps 100 miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping ice drama of the future, to be produced by Paramount Pictures. Newsgatherer Russell Owen will have assembled material for a hundred exclusive stories in the New York Times...
...singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest class of civilized creatures, a common bargee, the U. S. counterpart of those yellow specimens who live on rafts and junks in the rivers of inferior China. Their annoyance was not unnatural; yet, had they known the true facts concerning the bargee-"Geisha-girl" their annoyance would have vanished and, since Geisha girls are intelligent, they would have been full of sympathy...
Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London. The newspaper of world's largest circulation in any language, the London Daily Mail has been devoting 16 columns per day to the story...
Excerpt from report: "The hostess of the night club and speakeasy is the American counterpart of the Geisha Girl...