Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Wesley Fesler is depending on the speed and agility of his quintet to counteract the height of the Engineers and to give the Crimson revenge for the 29 to 24 defeat suffered at the hands of its downstream neighbors last year in the opener...
After all this drumbeating, Ham turned pacifistic. Last spring he proposed a National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars "to counteract the inspired propaganda which has created mass war hysteria throughout the Nation by inflaming the fears and passions of our people." In April, on a nationwide radio hookup, he begged "an end to all this war talk." In May his committee was offering $100 prizes for essays on "Why America Should Keep Out of Foreign Wars," and Congressmen were beginning to refer to their alarmed colleague as a "Leader of the Ostrich Bloc...
...view he sums up the European achievements as roads he "does not care twopence about," schools which produce "a very disgruntled specimen," missions so frail "that, ten years after the departure of the last missionary, there would be no Christianity left," hospitals whose staffs need "all their time to counteract the tendency of the population to decrease under the white man's rule...
...counteract the resulting sequestered existence, the wives of these men have decided to band together for their mutual amusement. . . . The symbol of the organization will be a question mark upheld by a pair of wings (worn upside down while the old man is at home...
...Timed to counteract this impression in London and Paris while pact bargaining hangs fire, its first complete census figures since 1926 were published by the Soviet Government last week. They showed a population for the whole Soviet Union of 170,467,186 (a gain of 23,500,000 since were counted in 1926). Exulted Pravda: The percent of population growth not surpassed by any other country. Its estimates: U. S. 11%; Italy 9%; Germany 7%; Britain 5%; France 2.7%. Exulted Chief of the Central Statistical Administration of the National Economy Sautin: "A continuous growth of population...