Word: analogous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of the City of Edinburgh and, more importantly, chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland by such means as are comprehended within the meaning of the word charitable." Under the Earl...
...unequipped. They have to be "broken in." Much greater initial efficiency will result if this is done by trained educators than if they have to pick it up as best they can as they go along. In other words, I propose to apply to the foreign service the analog which West Point and Annapolis bear to our Army and Navy...