Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your allusion [TIME, May 25] to accepters of "A" gasoline-rationing cards as "meek, mild Milquetoasts" made me hopping mad. If cooperation with the Government in a critical situation denotes a lack of guts, we had better dig up Mr. C. Milquetoast's living counterpart to run the war effort...
Eliot House's championship eight meets its counterpart, Trumbull College of Yale, at New Haven today as the Crimson representatives seek to prolong the victory streak over the Elis which they started back...
...this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point on Chapel Hill, the visitor may catch sight of a giant chess castle. From its summit one gets a clearer view of the slaughter house...
...Great, for example, moved the city fathers of Moscow to dispatch several such huge gingerbreads of "honor," one in the form of the coat of arms of the City of Moscow, another in the form of the double eagle. Louis XIV, a gourmet of parts, restored the French counterpart of gingerbread, pain d'epice, to the place of eminence it had enjoyed for centuries in France...
Lifted almost bodily from the Kaufmann-Hart stage success, "T.M.W.C.T.D." is just as funny as its flesh-and-blood counterpart. What it lacks in a few Hays-ened cracks, it makes up for in some deft characterizations that even the stage-play couldn't boast...