Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good reason. The Wookey is something that a large part of the English-speaking world still delights in: the humor of Punch, Every character, every situation, every line in the play (except a few words spoken out that Punch would print as -s) has had its counterpart in Punch during the last 100 years. The Wookey, a grandchild of this traditional British humor, proves that there is still life in the Punch line...
...eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Paris, to many parts of Vichyfrance and the Empire. Finally, in Vichy's stadium Marshal Pétain addressed tens of thousands of Legionnaires. There he pronounced them the one and only political party in France-his own counterpart of the German National Socialists...
...modern text has so exclusive a claim to the title of Teachers' Friend as had the famed McGuffey Readers. But some 400,000 schoolmarms (two-thirds of all U.S. public grade school teachers) draw regular inspiration from a modern counterpart of McGuffey whose lessons are said to reach 14,000,000 pupils: a magazine called The Instructor. Last week the 50-year-old Instructor got a new boss: Miss Helen Mildred Owen, daughter of the magazine's founder. Energetic, fortyish, long the magazine's managing editor, she took over last week as president of the firm...
Last week Britain's armed forces got their youngest and sweetest general. Mrs. Jean Knox, 33, a neat brunette with quick blue eyes and smileable lips which she colors vermilion, took over as Chief Controller (feminine counterpart of Major General) of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (feminine counterpart of the Army...
...Feminine counterpart of the Navy: the "Wrens" (Women's Royal Naval Service); of the R.A.F.: the W.A.A.F. (Women's Auxiliary Air Force...