Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paintings, one by Bottini and the other by Petiti. The cornerstone is to be laid at 117th street and Amsterdam avenue, August 5. Mussolini promises to donate Friar of Assisi memorials. A library of 15,000 volumes is being assembled which will comprehend the entire Italian civilization, its only counterpart existing in Venice. Further contributions to the Italian house are planned by the Italian Government, which wishes to encourage "this worthy cultural enterprise...
...responded to restraint by purchasing a supply of bombs and hurling them when assaults were made upon his editorial sanctum. If Italian editors of today are less resourceful, they are like to smart for their lack of vigor. . . . At present the bombs of Mussolini's youth find their counterpart in dangers which he deliberately courts, as though to keep his nerves steeled against Fate. When a group of admirers presented him with a lioness cub they supposed he would scarcely venture to play with her after a few months. To the despair of his guards Signor Mussolini has become...
...course a far cry to the days when philosophers sat at Paris and decreed the fate of the medieval church and of its imperial counterpart. The university has changed with the philosopher; neither one is today what it was yesterday, and both have windmills which engage their Quixotic thrusts as completely as did the medieval world swing in its material and its spiritual axis about the university philosopher. But that such a change as has come about is permanent and not just the pendulum swing of reaction is a deduction hazardous and frail under the touch of reasoning...
...Though the Occidental concept of Satan belongs to the postexilic period of Hebrew development and has no exact Indian counterpart, the word is here employed as the nearest translation of Kali (The Black), dread Indian devourer, cruel goddess of destruction and death. **Doubtless Health Officer Bundesen was responsible only indirectly. It is the usual thing for officials to get their publicity sheets written by underpaid newspaper reporters, the majority of whom are constantly on the lookout for "outside work" of any kind to fatten their slender purses...
...recent Freshman riot at the Yale Commons had a counterpart in the "Great Rebellion of 1776" at the University which had its inception in the Harvard Commons of that...