Word: counteractions
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...second question produced an inquisitive uproar. Doubtless, the Anti-Saloon League needed the money, doubtless Mr. Kresge's conduct in giving the Anti-Saloon League half a million dollars was highly to be praised. Yet, would $500,000 spent in anti-saloon propaganda ("educational purposes") be sufficient to counteract the unfortunate effect produced upon those persons who would instantly suppose that if a man commits adultery with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner in his hypocrisy...
Even in the eighties, unusual distractions were beginning to appear; and this solicitous parent was distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said...
...early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins, in some way not yet conclusively proved, counteract the toxins of syphilitic spirochetes. We have patients so treated who for ten years now have been able to live and work normally. Without this malaria treatment they probably would be insane or dead...
...failure of the University forward passing attack, counted upon to counteract the strong defense of the Red and Blue line, will mean that Coach Arnold Horween '20 and his assistants will probably spend some time this week developing and polishing off the Crimson aerial game. At Philadelphia the line did not hold long enough the passer was generally hurried, and the possible receivers were covered by watchful Quakers...
...sole possible explanation for this reversal of the laws of man and nature is that Boston's antecedents are too puritanical in the unfavorable sense, to permit even the abundance of professorships to counteract its influence. The blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...