Word: counteractions
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...effort to counteract the stream of propaganda launched by Abd-el-Krim, supreme commander of the Riffs, who last week fell from a mule and broke a leg, Sultan Mulai Yusef ordered investigation of the tribes faithful to himself...
...suggested to a Congressman a bill to create the office of Chief of Naval Operations- a measure opposed by Secretary Josephus Daniels, although he later took credit for it. And in 1914, the Admiral clandestinely caused himself to be called before a Congressional Committee, where he was able to counteract to some extent the testimony of Mr. Daniels that the Navy was all it should have been...
...English. But in a measure the deficiency is supplied. Racy and colorful English is copiously emitted at Harvard. There is occasion for philosophy of the kind that consoled Barrett Wendell under the stress of athletic defeat. "Yale was founded half a century after Harvard," he used to say, "to counteract our radical influence. She has been after us ever since, until now she has taken to winning." Nevertheless, the tribe of Harvard men and of Wendells continued to strive for victory, and the chances are that hereafter the dramatic muse will be even more assiduously wooed...
...departments. At present, so little time can a tutor devote to any one student that he can not know him or his needs. Every system of large-scale education reduces to a bare minimum the contacts between professor and student. It was hoped that the tutor would counteract this disadvantage of a large college. But when forced to share himself among too many students the tutor becomes merely another part of the already too bloodless and inhuman system...
...averages of the two lines, which show Harvard to have an advantage of one pound per man, do not tell the whole tale. On paper the central portion of the Middlebury line shows a distinct weakness. The Crimson center and guards outweigh their opponents nine pounds a man. To counteract this advantage, Potter, McLaughlin, Brosowsky, Ehlert, Rigelman, and Mullen all faced Harvard last year...