Word: counteracting
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...competition of the outside eating places around Harvard Square, patronage at the college dining hall has been falling off to a large extent of late. In an effort to counteract this, Comptroller F. S. Mead, '87, has made many changes in the service, and from now on it is expected that Memorial Hall will prove a formidable rival of the Harvard Square restaurants...
There seems, however, to be a small ray of hope in Mr. Cabot's admission that his college training not only did not counteract, but emphasized his incipient skepticism. For as he also says, it is folly to act on faith when one may have fact. One ascertains facts only with great difficulty and by constantly forcing one's self to demand the facts. This is the point of skepticism, only by highly developed doubt can the mysteries of the world ever hope to be penetrated, and the facts, which Mr. Cabot regards as preferable to faith, ever be discovered...
...earlier theory of the mysterious trip was that it was to counteract the movement for an Austrio-Bavarian-Rhenish union which would leave Prussia alone in her misery...
...literature to all the foremost republics of the southern continent. It is a propaganda ship--a veritable floating "Italian Exposition"--to impress the Latin inhabitants of South America, and to stimulate commerce and intercourse between the "Latinity" of the old and the new worlds. Professedly. It aims to counteract the influence of the United States in the South...
...splints for jaws is dental work, and perfect coordination between 'dentist and surgeon was essential. The aim of the Army work was not to improve on nature, but simply to attempt to restore lost parts and correct defects due to injuries and deep scars-in short to counteract mutilations in the best possible way. In many War hospitals, women artists were employed to make permanent records of the cases by drawings, watercolors, waxwork and clay modeling...