Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead reckoning that oldtime sailors used in bad weather when they could not shoot the sun has a modern counterpart "in Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s recently announced long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing...
...Though he is almost two years older than his American counterpart, the Norwegian man student is less likely to be married, is more likely to be involved in a semipermanent dating relationship. Norwegian coeds are 2½ years older than the average American coed, and more than four times as many are married...
...boys in an ancient tale who stumbled on the entrance of a cave heaped high with jew els. The deeper they looked the more treasure they saw - and the cave went on for ever. What the scientists had found, they told one another with growing excitement, was the modern counterpart of the Philosophers' Stone, which medieval alchemists searched for in vain as the tool to transmute gold from base metals. The atom has turned the medieval dream into 20th century reality. Modern atomic science can actually transmute metals -plutonium is a transmuted metal, and gold could be made from...
...pipe, each weighing ten tons, and built seven pumping stations and three large reservoirs. The U.S. sent technical aid, most of the tools, and almost all the $24,750,000 required for financing: $4,500,000 as a direct U.S. grant-in-aid, another $9,350,000 indirectly in counterpart funds, the remainder in private funds...
Nehru had good reason to praise and even to envy his neutralist counterpart in Europe, for if he himself had walked the tightrope of peaceful coexistence without accident thus far. Tito was doing it with a careless bravura that far outstripped him. Even observers from the warring camps below had been forced to gasp once or twice during the last few weeks as the Yugoslav seemed dangerously near to falling from his wire on one side or the other. But the very day that Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived in Belgrade, a U.S. Senate committee approved a $40.5 million grant...