Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HUXLEY has done satire on the human scene before this, but never on such a large scale, or perhaps so well. The disconnected bits that he pieces together in "Point Counter Point" to make what he calls a novel do make a pattern of sorts, which gives ample illustration, or corroboration, as the case may be, of his ideas on the futility of human endeavor...
...recommendations made by the Erskine Bureau in 1927 after a year investigation of Boston traffic have all been made effective by the City Counter continued Halsey. "The most important of these in fact the key stone for any further action was the establishment of a permanent Traffic Engineering Division for the city...
Please print the following as a counter to Mr. Alvin G. Anderson's attack on the Democratic nominee...
...crowds rise and break into waves to flow out of the stadium. The morning-paper reporters leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns make their appearance along the counter, by whose light the typewrites click, and the pencils push faster and faster, sending to frantic sporting editors trying to catch the third edition the information that...
...being shelled by the counter-barrage of our own allies. The cupoia has evidently been mistaken for the alcove of enemy sniper-philologists. The barrage is mainly giant hugos. Thus far none of these has taken affect, but my men are on the point of mutiny from another reason. Those tiny diabolical maupaasants and balance, of short range but exquisite torturing power, even to the most hardened bibliophile, are driving them to the point of madness. . . . I am planning this bluebook in the hands of my sleekest section...