Word: counteractions
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...shrinkage of these glaciers is probably due to the fact that not a sufficient amount of snow falls on the neve or reservoirs in the higher regions to counteract the constant melting at lower altitudes. This indicates that some sort of a climatic change is taking place in the Alaskan district which if it continues will perhaps eventually have far-reaching effects...
...serious attempt that has been to counteract the influence of the fraternity was made by the late President when he was at the head of Princeton University, and I am told that even there the suppression of fraternities is only nominal, and that the eating clubs exercise practicaly the same functions that the Greek letter societies once...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., 30,000 years seems a long time to wait for creative evolution to reach this point, and in the course of his remarks on the dyestuff industry he strayed into the future to propose that chemists could and should discover catalytic chemicals that would counteract the muscle poisons which we now have to sleep off. Instead of going to bed for the night, one would have a shot in the arm or a pink pill, change his shirt and bid every one "Good Night" with a cheery morning smile. Other chemicals-not to call them drugs...
...damage done to the locale of infection or irritation. In consequence, cells (which with normal, healthy blood food would take their normally diverse form peculiar to the local tissue) stop their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer. (Propounded two years ago by Dr. Emilian O. Houda, Bohemian physician of Tacoma, Wash. Dr. Houda, in the current issue of Cancer indignantly asserts that Gye and Barnard of London, who have recently...
...expect to spend the day right here in Cambridge singing Songs from Vagabondia in the best Carmen manner as I gayly trip to Emerson J with shredded wheat on my breast and waistcoat--to hear Professor Prescott lecture on the Principle of Integration. Then to counteract this I shall blossom forth amid the literary buds in Sever 28 where ten o'clock will find Professor Lowes discussing Shelley--a far from, integrated person--or was he? At least I know the story about the ladies and his crossing the room clad only in disremembrance...