Word: counter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shift in policy came when the Union offered to end the Berlin if the Western Powers would their counter-blockade...
Davenport closed the ceremonies with a dramatic demonstration of the cyclotron's potency. He placed a block of metal that had been bombarded by the machine before a Geiger counter. A violent ticking from this machine showed that the block was radio-active...
...knew that President Li had been unable to get another candidate for the post, so Yen was confirmed. The Yuan members were more interested in a counter on one side of the meeting room above which was a sign: "Legislators planning to leave for Formosa must register here...
Last week also brought news to Canton of the fall of Tsingtao, last Nationalist pocket in North China. South of the river Communist armies advanced without opposition. The Formosa registration counter did a brisk business...
...Crowd Romance. Last week in San Francisco, the Northerners voted to consider the question of changing the denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to invite their big Southern sister to unite with them in establishing the "American Baptist Convention." But there was scant hope that the Dixie Baptists would accept this extended hand...