Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made to pay a fine, he launched a counter-at-tack and set out to show the town what a real blue Sunday was like...
Excitement in Congress over the condition of the farmer perennially arouses curiosity among citizens who depend on the farmer for food. "How," asked the man-at-the-lunch-counter last week, "is the farmer really fixed? What is the Government doing, or not doing...
There being no such, thing as a typical farmer; the distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals?and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...
Soon afterward, however, the wrathful telephone-women of Paris united to defend their nimbleness and honor, and hurled the counter charge that they could not make quick connections with antiquated equipment...
...Albert Pirelli of Italy, president of the International Chamber of Commerce, was present. Let the U. S. be careful that its tariff policy does not run counter to its citizens' healthy habits of foreign investment, said...