Word: counteractions
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...ending the problems of Radcliffe extra-curricular organizations, then the submersion of individual choice might be worth the attempt. The fact is, however, that there are strong reservations to be made, that along with the security promised by the plan come two new evils which would counteract anything gained and more...
...Yale athletic director said that he and William J. Bingham '16 would probably confer with Asa Bushnell, Commissioner of the EIL, in an effort to work out some plan that would prevent future flare-ups. A rotation system, Kiphuth said, might counteract the difficulties imposed by varying rules interpretations in different areas...
...great many Georgians were intensely displeased by this tawdry barbarism. Governor Melvin Thompson took steps to counteract it. He ordered two prisoners removed from Reidsville's safe Tatnall State Prison and sent back to a rural jail in Emanuel County where they are accused of having murdered a state patrolman. This was done to prove that no Georgian would lynch them. The Governor said that the Klan meetings should be outlawed. His reason: their activities might encourage the interference of Northern "race baiters...
...said, "by drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common tares of mankind. Some feel that he could do with more human warmth and less intellectual incandescence...
Purpose. Winant wrote Letter from Grosvenor Square to counteract "the growing disillusionment of today; which not only dims and obscures the present, but is trying to cloud the past." The past which he has called to mind, dwarfed in part by the mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed...