Word: counteractivity
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Rembrandt occupied much space in the art news of the week, and in a way which may be calculated to counteract the damaging effect of Dr. John C. Van Dyke's recent book of criticism and reattribution entitled Rembrandt and His School (TIME...
Unprecedentedly heavy car loadings together with the firming of security and commodity prices, have been the most recent indications of a prosperous Autumn trade now close at hand. The domestic situation has been sufficiently cheerful to counteract such pessimistic foreign news as the Japanese earthquake, the Italo-Greek imbroglio and the economic flounderings of the latest German Government. It is evident that the present momentum of the retail trade should carry well through the late Autumn, unless some unforeseen calamity or calamities develop. Pig production, however-a good index of general production-has fallen off, and the extractor and manufacturer...
...Hughes on the twelve-mile limit of U. S. territorial waters. It is understood that Great Britain will agree to the temporary extension of the limit from three to twelve miles in the case of the U. S. A. only, recognizing that such a step is necessary to counteract the activities of liquor smugglers...
...between the Rajah and the British rule in India, complicated by his sensibility of the woman's singular attractions, persuade the dignitary to sacrifice the males to the Green Goddess. The discovery of a wireless set in his palace and the subsequent arrival of British airplanes help to counteract his inhospitable intentions. The plot is well sustained and consistently exciting...
...same conference John Spargo, former Socialist leader, urged Sir Paul to tell "the terrible truth" about education in Soviet Russia wherever he went in the U. S. in order to counteract "propaganda" issued by The New Republic and The Nation to the effect that the Soviets have been " marvelously successful " in their educational policies...