Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Organized a British Council of Churches, whose 112 Anglican, Presbyterian and Nonconformist members will serve as "an official representative organization for common planning and action." The closest counterpart is America's Federal Council of Churches-which again has never had such a galaxy of top-flight sponsorship...
Britain's Precept. A yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
...This Gun for Hire," though given second billing at the U. T., easily surpasses its dyspeptic counterpart. Alan Ladd grimly and effectively stalks his way through a difficult and interesting role, with various and sundry saboteur doing their darndest to stop him. Ladd himself makes the picture what it is, and his sensitive portrayal of a different kind of ruthless killer marks him an actor to be watched. Veronica Lake is here, too. There must be something nice to say about her presence in the film, but all we can think of right now is--well, Veronica Lake is here...
...Britons sit in trains or busses without striking up a conversation with you, it doesn't mean they are being haughty and unfriendly. They don't speak to you because they don't want to appear intrusive or rude." (Says the Guide's British counterpart, prepared by Journalist Sir Willmott Lewis for R.A.F. cadets training in the U.S.: "Fellow travelers are by that very fact acquaintances in the States. It will not be resented if you get into conversations without any preliminary maneuvers...
...dining room is valuable to its members not only as an eating place, but it is also their only counterpart of the undergraduate House system. Many friendships made at meal time, their only opportunity to meet socially, continue for years...