Word: counteractivity
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...tutorial staff of each House representative. This will preclude the necessity of refusing men on the grounds that another House is better equipped to take them. In addition, the inclusion of a fairly large number of tutors on the committee choosing men for each House will tend to counteract the instinctive prejudices that the chief officials may have for students concentrating in their own or allied fields...
...motors will be mounted so as to counteract vibration. Another precaution against unnecessary noise is that special blocks of wood will be set in the wall to facilitate the attachment of machines at any time. There will be special electrical connections between all the rooms so that any voltage may be obtained throughout the building. All machines in the laboratory will have their own motors obviating the necessity of setting in motion a large system of generators and pulleys...
...take at least 16 minutes to climb 15,000 ft. from the ground. The Royal Air Force has at least one type of day bomber, the Hawker Hart with a secret steam-cooled engine, capable of a maximum speed of 187 m.p.h. So has France, so has Italy.* To counteract these speedy bombers British planemakers have designed four types of "interceptors," 200 m.p.h. single-seat fighters which can rise like rockets, climb to 15,000 ft. in eight minutes. The British public had its first chance to see day bombers and interceptors...
...counteract this tendency, to preserve the Republic from a dictatorship, that the new party has been formed. In its first proclamation it called itself the Staatspartei (Constitutional Party). Claiming the late great Gustav Stresemann as its patron saint, and two of Stresemann's biographers on the list of its organizers,* the Staatspartei "stands on the ground of the Federal Constitution and honors the national flag;" i.e. it is opposed to the restoration of the black, white, red, tricolor of Imperial Germany. All this is understandable and praiseworthy. What is surprising is the man who was chosen leader...
...after all, a few discrepancies like these do not counteract the worth of the feature picture, and besides a little careful timing will avoid the whole difficulty...