Word: counteract
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...last few years have proved, as Dean Bender points out, that "the Houses are still far from realizing the ideal which Mr. Lowell and Mr. Harkness had in mind when the House system was established." With the post-war decrease in tutorial, the Houses should provide the force to counteract "mass education and student anonymity...
...position in the world by giving the sign of a regenerated spirit . . . We will work with and support the efforts of those who honestly and sincerely seek to accomplish that purpose. On the other hand, we shall not hesitate to use all our power and influence to expose and counteract any subversive influences which condone or encourage the revival of Naziism in German life...
Racket & Revolver. Reverdy was a normally mischievous boy who learned to swear and smoke and pilfer, but his mother did her best to counteract the effects of poverty and slums by encouraging her son in the religious life. When he finally decided to become a minister after graduating from Wilberforce University, she was delighted. But his farmer father exclaimed: "You're a fool to spend your life going through the world making your living off the damned niggers...
...Hatred of the enemy was the next defense to go ... These soldiers had a much higher degree of directed hatred than the other psychiatric casualties seen in combat . . . However, it was not of sufficient force to counteract the effects of long-sustained combat." ¶ The soldier then lost faith in short-term objectives-his hope that once a given hill was taken or a given town was entered he would be relieved...
...United States," and who are therefore to be excluded. These persons include members of or persons affiliated with organizations (1) associated with foreign governments "opposed to measures adopted by the Government of the United States in the interest of the United States," or (2) which work to "counteract the effectiveness" of U.S. measures...