Word: counterparts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newest British sport, much indulged in by girls attached to the various fighting services, is Scramball, the maidenly counterpart of rugby, from which the scrum (equivalent of U.S. football line play) and tackling are eliminated. When a player with the ball is touched, she must part with it instantly. Stalwart damsels play in service sweaters and short sports skirts...
...Collectivism is coming, whether we like it or not," the delegates were told by no less a churchman than England's Dr. William Paton, co-secretary of the World Council of Churches, but the conference did not veer as far to the left as its definitely pinko British counterpart, the now famous Malvern Conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941). It did, however, back up Labor's demand for an increasing share in industrial management. It echoed Labor's shibboleth that the denial of collective bargaining "reduces labor to a commodity." It urged taxation designed "to the end that...
Tiger goalie Kelley was forced to make 39 saves to Ab Fenn's 32, and only in the first period did the Harvard netminder have more saves to make than his striped counterpart...
This arrangement saw its counterpart in at least three theaters of war last week, where U.S. armed forces were actually functioning under a single command. In the western Caribbean, Rear Admiral John H. Hoover was in supreme command. In the Canal Zone, Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, Air Forces, was top man. In Hawaii, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz had been placed over Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons of the Air Forces, top Army man of the Islands...
Almost concealed by the weight of burlesque applied with superhuman travail by Maxie lies the counterpart of the message of social snobbery which J. P. Marquand gave to the world in the now famous "Pulham." Harvard's intellectual snobbery, a form of the disease as distasteful as its social counterpart and even more prevalent around Cambridge, deserves a shellacking, but the heavy hand of Hollywood molded Maxie's opus into the general style of belly-laugh comedies, abandoning all thought of satire...