Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counteract untactful Attorney Vails., Laredo businessmen held an official welcome for Señor Calles when he passed through their city on his return to Mexico...
...view of the general dissatisfaction with the lecture-system, it would be an excellent idea to recall this practice from the desuetude into which it has fallen. The exchange of classes might even counteract the soporific influences that the present lecture-system, unfortunately exerts. Cornell Daily...
...Vaccine (in the special sense) contains dead or weakened bacteria which stimulate the blood to kill active germs. Scrum is the fluid of immune blood obtained after coagulation. It contains antitoxins which counteract the poison produced by a specific bacterium. The three terms are often loosely used as equivalents...
...pretties is extensively used in connection with other parts of the course. In Civil Procedure various texts on common law pleading. Clark on Code Pleading, Professor Scott's little book, and Professor Morgan's Introduction together with various law review articles constitute the materials with which the men counteract by self-help defective instruction. Already the case system as applied to these courses is in large measure a legal education...
James Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...