Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances, as well as the joys of the liaison. Finally he was reduced to borrowing from the butcher and the wife who by that time closed her door on him. Lillian went back to work at the handkerchief counter, kept Hubert...
...Boston, Mass., a cat named Sarah, mother of 72, felt ill. After three days' agony she leaped to a store counter, wound a string around her paws and a decayed tooth, yanked out the tooth, felt better...
...gaudy contrivance made of bright new sheet tin, wooden mouldings colored bright red and black and a strip of compressed cork. It looked like a modernistic candy counter, except that a long piece of pipe went with...
Surrounded by Admirals, Secretaries, experts both naval and diplomatic, for hours last week the President considered tonnages, gun sizes, British statements of naval requirements, U. S. counter-requirements. Then, while the White House, the State Department, the Navy Department still boiled with naval and financial statistics, long code messages were sent to Ambassador Dawes in London and presently it was definitely known that Britain's white-headed Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would sail for the U. S. on Sept. 28 to confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed...
With significant unison the Soviet and Chinese governments both stopped last week their game of hurling counter charges that Chinese and Russian troops were raiding each other's positions along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier (TIME, July...