Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect this veritable cry for peace will have on the faculties of our colleges and universities remains to be seen. Official boards, trustees, and presidents, though usually in favor of peace, often have a way of disregarding the wishes of their students when these depart from tradition or run counter to the ambition of vested military interests to use youth for their own purposes. But we are hopeful that this poll may stimulate teachers, especially, to keep on courageously with their task of freeing their institutions from the clutches of war ideology...
Proponents of this theory have an undoubted advantage in the fact that it has never failed--because it has never been tried. Nor is it likely that it ever will be tried, for it runs counter to human nature. One must agree, then with Mr. Bliven, it appears, in his unhappy conclusion. If our present economic and political system is seriously threatened by a rival, such things as freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of press, will inevitably disappear. --Yale News...
Most economists view R. F. C. as inflation?the creation of credit where credit did not exist before. But President Hoover, like many another man to whom words are good or bad per se, dislikes the word inflation, prefers to call his relief policies counter-deflation. Business and banking have been spinning in a downward spiral?bank runs, heavy sales of assets to keep liquid, reduced security values, more fear, more runs, more sales, still lower values. It is to arrest this process that the Government has interposed R. F. C. on the theory that $2,000,000,000 will...
...appear in history as the only profiteer of the War. Is it believable that the Americans could resort to hostile acts in the economic and exchange fields? The economy of the world is solid; whoever in any part of the world damages it damages himself; customs reprisals call for counter reprisals .... The world needs the United States, but the United States needs Europe and the world as never before...
...When snow flies." New England has many idioms rich and expressive, but none so beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...