Word: counterparts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...process was born in 1935 when Basil Albert Adams and Eric Leighton Holmes of the British Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (which has no counterpart in the U.S.) prepared L, phenol-formaldehyde resin which was more useful for its chemical properties than as a plastic. When immersed in "hard" water, which contains salts of calcium, it entered an exchange: it took calcium atoms from the water, replaced them with sodium, thus softened the water...
...Great Big Doorstep is good quality but very short weight. Its jokes are funny but few, its characters likable but often dull. Its counterpart is Tobacco Road, but The Great Big Doorstep is much less racy and much less real. More than a doorstep, it needs some kind of backlog...
...sweeping decisions. It's members are the Army's Marshall, the Navy's Admiral Ernest King, President Roosevelt's Admiral William D. Leahy and the Air Forces' Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold. General Marshall's point is that this board, with its British counterpart, achieves unity of command...
...sure, many changes of detail and emphasis have taken place. The course bears small resemblance to its leisurely counterpart of as little as three years ago. The Harvard unit has been among the leaders in conversion to a war-time pace. But all the grimness of purpose and streamlining of subject matter must necessarily be built upon a basic contradiction, and are therefore invalid as a final plan. The man who once left Harvard with a degree in his pocket and gold bars on his shoulders was by training three-quarters a college graduate and one-quarter a trained officer...
...only in the realm of supply, but in its counterpart-interdicting the enemy's lines-the U.S. Navy has not given Archer Vandegrift the support he needs. The Japanese have landed troops on Guadalcanal almost at will; they have shelled the U.S. positions from...