Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they're curly pot-bellied runts. Why? Because these runts were compelled by their larger and huskier brothers and sisters to eat at the rear end of the lunch counter. That's the trouble with American agriculture. For twelve long years this great basic industry has been sucking the hind teat of this country of ours...
Last week Paraguay admitted that a general was a good thing even in a bog. As soon as Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt got back from exile (TIME. Jan. 2), he broke up the attacks against Munoz by counter-attacks on both wings. In the middle of the rainy season (South American armistice time), he sent his men floundering eastward on three fronts in an encircling movement. His coterie of one-time German Army officers led the little brown men in hand-to-hand Indian fighting with the machete, instead of the modern warfare that had astounded South...
...chain died leaving to his estate a lot of old masters (Hals, Raeburn, Corot, Diaz, Millet, Rousseau, Bellini) that had cost him some $750,000. To his company he left his Yale-educated Son (Class of 1918). John R. Jr. had been put through the business from the lunch counter up. Homely and negligent in dress, he was regarded by his father's good friends as too interested in horses and bridge to make a good executive...
...four other governors from doing this are still in the field; the Public Utilities still cherish a grudge against the man who fought them vigorously when he was free; and the Bolshevik-phobia still grips California so tightly that only a politician weary of holding office would dare run counter...
...gate at the back of the chamber. All those who thus took their ease were, however, allowed but little time for their dalliance, until each one of them should be called by name, when whoever amongst them it was had been summoned would make haste to reach the low, counter-like structure in the furthest recesses of the apartment. Here was conveyed to each, by the attendant, what must have been in the nature of a sentence, for each was perceived either to startle and grow pale, or to turn away with a countenance of tragick despair, or to depart...