Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exiled for socialist tendencies, went to Paris, where he graduated from the Sorbonne. After the Revolution he returned to Russia, in 1918 was an editorial writer on Pravda, now the Soviet's official mouthpiece. Despite his bourgeois background, he led a Soviet army in Turkestan against counter revolutionists, then became Minister of the Treasury and in 1928 head of the Soviet oil syndicate. In choosing him first Ambassador to Britain, Dictator Josef Stalin picked the Communist most acceptable to Britons, probably the mildest Communist still in the Soviet's good graces...
...have been invited to create a temporary organization . . . to counter act the effect of the recent panic in the stockmarket. . . . The cure for such storms is action. . . . No movement to reduce wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...
...riches in business. Mr. Behrman seemed to flounder, to be a little uncertain of his way. This was particularly evident in the second act. The details are revealing, little turns of character are brought out with subtlety and grace, but it is in the larger strokes, the rhythms and counter-rhythms, the transitions from one scene to another, that one feels an ineptitude that, but for Philip Moclier's unobtrusive direction, and the high standard of the acting, would make the play much less effective than...
...Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality is only a question of statistics." Other books: Antic Hay, Two or Three Graces, Point Counter Point...
...goes through a noticeable, but usually harmless quake at least once a year, and a damaging one at about five year intervals. The probable cause of last week's quake, according to Arthur Keith, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Geology and Geography, is counter pressure. When glaciers and icecaps a mile thick covered eastern Canada and northeastern U. S., their weight squeezed the land rocks downward. Now the rocks are slowly bulging upwards...