Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story cottage in New Orleans in 1837 two strange figures faced one another. One was George Catlin, painter of Indians, contemporary and counterpart of famed Bird-Painter John James Audubon. For five years he had been living with Amerindians, studying their languages and ways, painting a comprehensive collection of Indian studies most of which are now in Washington's National Museum...
...displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart of "hot" music, considered its presence with the Philharmonic-Symphony incongruous...
Punctuation and typography (the counterpart of his musical counterpoint and bizarre arpeggios) are as important and far more intelligible in the verse forms of Dwight Fiske than in those of E. E. Cummings. The Fiske version of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra starts as follows...
...lecture courses. In this country, the term "seminar" has come to connote instruction of a highly advanced kind, as in the 20 courses whose primary concern is with research; but the Germans use the term liberally, and apply it to courses which are, relatively speaking, introductory. A rough counterpart of the latter "seminar" can be found in the better conference groups in History 1. The keynote of the German seminar is reduced size, individual attention, and consequent freedom from superficiality...
...title of Shapley's lecture will be "Fact and Fancy in Cosmogony," and will deal with new theories of astronomical and physical investigation, with particular attention to relativity. Preceding the meeting of Sigma Xi, which is the scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...