Word: counter
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...Stillborn," "reactionary," "suspended in the air," "counter-revolutionary," were some of the epithets flung last week by the Anarcho-Syndicalists. most extreme of Spain's Leftist groups, at the newly-installed radical Government of Socialist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin (TIME, May 24). Stocky, 48-year-old Dr. Negrin- born in the Canary Islands, educated in Germany, onetime professor of biology, Finance Minister in the Largo Caballero Cabinet-was not disturbed by these howls. The crisis forced on his predecessor's Government by a revolt of Anarcho-Syndicalists in Barcelona had been smoothly overcome, and Dr. Negrin...
...much fighting last week. Every front but Bilbao remained in a stalemate. . Around Bilbao the German-Italian-Rightist ring crept closer and closer but still the Basques held out with deeds of incredible valor, sacrificing thousands in desperate counter-attacks and cheering each other with the thought that their grandfathers had held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised...
Last Monday 150,000 cards were distributed throughout the Ford plants as a counter-drive against the U. A. W. A., which has begun to organize all Ford employees. These cards contained such Fordisms as "A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!" and "If you go into a union they have got you--but what have you got?" When washed and sifted, the opinions claim that New York financial interests control labor as well as the managers of industry, that union workers must pay for their jobs, that independent competition...
...rearrange and brace the whole weakened structure he designed a shoe with a high, stiff, snug counter. This keeps the heel directly under the tibia, puts the heel in a straight line with the base and tip of the big toe, warps the instep into a springy arch. Shoes, according to Dr. Schwartz, must have heels to help throw the body forward while walking. Men's heels should be supported eight eighths of an inch-from the ground, women's fourteen eighths, says...
...Charles Thomson Rees Wilson of Cambridge University invented a "cloud chamber" in which tracks made by sub-atomic particles could be seen. At about the same time Hans Geiger, now of the University of Tubingen, invented a cylindrical "counter" which crackles every time a particle enters it. Physicists use both devices, alone or together, to record the presence of and identify cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, photons, electrons, protons, positrons, neutrons...