Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School's example of direct action should find its counterpart in the national sphere in the form of a proposal to determine the status of judicial review by constitutional amendment. From the Administration's viewpoint, there could be no more propitious time to carry out their reform constitutionally by amendment. Sticking by the letter of the law and not the spirit, as President Roosevelt expects to do through a sly application of his appointive power, is obviously as great a crime as any judgment the Supreme Court could possibly hand down. The crowning example of irony, however, rests...
...among the local peasants. A Mexican peasant, once established on such land, is by no means sure that he will not be visited by a landlord's lynching party who may cut off his ears and throw them in his face. Incidents of this kind have their counterpart in irate bands of the newly-landed Mexican peasantry who burst in upon the gentry and do many a mischief. However, under strong President Cardenas, Mexicans are less & less cutting off each other's ears...
Garbed in his habitual gabardine slacks and yellow turtle-neck sweater, the stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...
...four-page biography of the New York Times's late, great Publisher Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935), written by onetime Timesman Elmer Davis. It was Publisher Ochs who made the Dictionary possible. When the American Council of Learned Societies met in 1924 to discuss a U. S. counterpart of Sidney Lee's great British Dictionary of National Biography, there was not $500 in the treasury to pay the officers' traveling expenses. Approached by his scholarly editorial writer, Dr. John H. Finley, Publisher Ochs promised that the Times would put up $50,000 a year, enough to cover...
...Thus the counterpart of the event which drew some 80 parents from all over the country to live in Lowell House for three days, will not be duplicated until 1938 at the earliest...