Word: counteraction
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...counted a sure winner. There is a possibility that the Stadium fans on Saturday may witness a repetition of the 1926 meet when Yale nosed out the Crimson 67 2-3 to 67 1-3. Harvard's point preponderance should come in the running events while Yale hopes to counteract this with a heavy total in the field...
...American College Publicity Association, meeting recently, passed resolutions to counteract the widespread publicity that "coon-skins coats and football games" have received in the past. It is their purpose to interest the public in education by releasing to newspapers and syndicates the most recent contributions of colleges and universities in the field of science, and research. This is without doubt a worthy aim. Wider publicity on scientific study is to be desired. But the fact remains that college sports are spectacular, and college scholarship is not. The emphasis placed by the press on sports is also partly the fault...
...counteract untactful Attorney Vails., Laredo businessmen held an official welcome for Señor Calles when he passed through their city on his return to Mexico...
...view of the general dissatisfaction with the lecture-system, it would be an excellent idea to recall this practice from the desuetude into which it has fallen. The exchange of classes might even counteract the soporific influences that the present lecture-system, unfortunately exerts. Cornell Daily...
...Vaccine (in the special sense) contains dead or weakened bacteria which stimulate the blood to kill active germs. Scrum is the fluid of immune blood obtained after coagulation. It contains antitoxins which counteract the poison produced by a specific bacterium. The three terms are often loosely used as equivalents...