Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe clubs polled, 10 said they would prefer not to merge with their Harvard counterpart. Four favored combining, and one, the Radcliffe Dance Group, can find no corresponding club at Harvard, and currently allows men to participate in its organization...
Governor Faubus should be nominated for the Stalin Medal or its present-day counterpart for his contribution to the cause of Communist propaganda...
Fulfilled was the Air Force's prayerful hope: Thor, at long last, had been successfully fired. A special top-level Defense Department committee, set up to settle the rivalry between Thor and its Army counterpart, Jupiter, was pondering whether to scrap one of the two intermediate-range (1,500-mile) ground-to-ground ballistic missiles or combine them in a hybrid with the best features of both. The Army made much of the fact that the less complex Jupiter had performed well in tests, while Thor, in its three tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third...
...boats could be called utilitarian fishing craft-all the rest are designed for snappy good looks and family fun. The yachtsman's wife, not the yachtsman himself, is the customer the boatyards want to please. Says a Chris-Craft executive: "Instead of portholes, we have the marine counterpart of the picture window. Men were satisfied with heads and galleys which were functional but inconveniently located. Women won't have it that way; they want galleys in the open, where they can call up the deckhouse easily, and they want plenty of space. The galley has automatic...
When he spoke at graduation last June, Riesman startled a large audience of graduates and seniors by saying that the college student of today is more confident but less ambitious than his counterpart of 25 years...