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Word: counterpart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil service career system--a question he was still exploring in a Gov 130 lecture this month. His thesis for the B. Litt. degree was a comparison of the constitutional, administrative, and sociological roles of the British administrative class of civil servant with that of its American counterpart...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Governmental Engineer | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

Greek Foreign Minister Evanghelos Averoff and his Turkish counterpart, Fatin Rustu Zorlu, expressed optimism for winning British approval of the plan to make Cyprus an independent republic. The plan was approved at the Turkish-Greek conference of five days in Zurich, Switzerland...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Britain, Greece, Turkey Discuss Plans for Cypriot Independence; National Guardsmen Battle Flood | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

More exciting news around Watson Rink, however, was the freshman team's 17-1 devastation of its Bruin counterpart. The Yardlings' 11th victory in 12 games was paced by Bob Howe, Tom Heintzman, and Dave Grannis, each of whom scored four goals. Everyone on the team but the two goalies tallied at least one point in what was decidedly a "team effort...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Varsity, Freshman Defeat Brown in Romps | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...they employ no servants. They ride in buses instead of private cars or Jeeps. The Russians work 16 hours a day, are careful never to mention politics. But the most effective Soviet ploy of all has been their insistence that every Russian of top rank must have his Indian counterpart. "Here," says one enthusiastic Indian at Bhilai, "we work shoulder to shoulder with the Russians. Elsewhere, we work under the foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Battle of the Mills | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Keys to the U.S.'s ski boom were the rope tow and its more advanced counterpart, the chair lift. The first rope tow, a jury rig powered by a truck engine, was installed at Woodstock, Vt. in 1934, the first chair lift at Sun Valley, Idaho in 1937. Until then a skier had to be young and determined enough to rise at dawn, spend most of the day trudging up the side of a mountain for the sake of one or two swift descents. The tow made skiing a downhill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bonanza in the Wilderness | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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