Word: counteractivity
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Immunity. There is no autoimmunity to erysipelas. Therefore Dr. Birkhaug advises that a person subject to this disease should take a prophylatic injection of the antitoxin serum to counteract a future sickness...
...generals for control of the government, the hegemony of the Far East hinges on its result. It is no secret that the present government is being subsidized by Moscow in order to cloak communistic propaganda directed at the foreign powers who have a foothold there. In an effort to counteract the Soviet influence, Japan stirred up the Manchurian revolt...
Sacrilegious Opera. For an account of the steps taken by the Catholic authorities at Milan to counteract the effects of the Italian premiere of an allegedly sacrilegious opera by Gabriele d'Annunzio, see ITALY...
...League also demanded a place in the council. Each of the three, claiming to represent a certain racial group of states, threatens to withdraw, if its aspirations are disappointed. And as if matters were not sufficiently complicated, political intrigue adds to the difficulty of the problem. In order to counteract German influence. France leans to Spain and Italy to Poland. Meanwhile Germany, chafing at the delay in obtaining the coveted seat, sends word that she will not join the League at all, if nations not concerned in the Locarno treaty, are to be admitted to the council on equal terms...
...counteract this morbid tendency the generous of the world have succeeded in devising methods of communicating for the deaf. One will recall the experiments which enabled blind, deaf, mute Helen Keller finally to speak. In reading lips most deaf people have become so adept that no longer do cinema actors dare blaspheme or talk ribaldry before the camera. Incidentally the cinema has been a great blessing for the deaf...