Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual count, this cab driver (or his female counterpart, an anonymous scrubwoman) has been quoted 34 times in the past six months. He never yet has failed to comprehend both the broad picture and the significant detail behind each story, and his succinct wisdom is beautifully quotable. I haven't been able to figure out his nationality. Sometimes he is a shrugging Frenchman, frequently a shrewd but likable Cockney. In the Nov. 12 issue he is an analytical Swede ("the only thing that puzzles me is how could a simple Navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets...
...forward a list of suggestions that would have turned Brooks House back 25 years by stressing only one-third of Phillip Brooks' original intentions in proposing the House--"to serve the religious, charitable, and social interests of the University." The new emphasis would have made it resemble its nominal counterpart at Yale, Dwight Hall...
Lown took offensive honors for the day, although pressed by his Open counterpart, Greeley. In addition to those who figured in the scoring. Mark Noble of Open and Henry Greenberg of Closed were outstanding runners
...Democrats, whose election work is being supervised by club president Robert S. Persky 3L, also plans further work in the next election. The organization, chartered in the spring of 1950, has no counterpart in the College...
...favorite McCarthy victim these days is Gustavo Duran. Joe flourishes a picture of Duran taken during the Spanish Civil War in what he says is "the uniform of the S.I.M.-the counterpart of the Russian secret police." He then says that Duran's American citizenship was rushed through, that he was "promoted" by the State Department to the U.N. in 1946. "And what do you think he was doing there today? Unbelievable as it is, his task was to screen displaced persons and decide which would make good, loyal Americans...