Word: counteractivity
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...locality where students and teachers might live in such close proximity that several hours might not, as now, be wasted daily by many students in the journey to and from the college. Again, the nature of American life makes peculiarly necessary for the collegian a strong force to counteract the incessant temptation to spread his energies over very various and often conflicting occupations...
...inducement to capital: vide II (a); (2) Profitable beet-raising in this country is still in its experimental stage: Defender, Apr. 21st, '90. - (b) It cannot be successfully started with a protective tariff; (1) A bounty paid by foreign governments to producers on their sugar-exports, tends to counteract the benefit of our tariff: S. V. White, Cong. R., 1889-90, p. 5015; (2) In the past, import duties have failed to create a flourishing sugar industry...
...would seem, on first thought, that such a decided falling off in interest would surely counteract our success in track and field athletics. The facts, however, do not warrant such an assumption. Never has our success been greater than in the past year or two, and our prospects for the future seem equally bright. The natural suggestion, then, might be that the cause which has killed the interest in our meetings has also kept up the general success in the athletics. It seems to us that, as a matter of fact, such is the case; and that this cause...
...find fault with the deeds of his ancestors and to blame them, on the ground that every evil thought and action had transmitted its effect to him. But it does not so often happen that this man realizes how careful he should be himself to try to counteract the evil influence he may have inherited and to take good care not to add to the store which he must transmit to future generations...
...just as necessary for the welfare of our country as liberty and equality are. Whereas the United States is a country which has grown up in simplicity, at present things have been changed a good deal and dishonesty of all kinds has slowly but surely crept in. To counteract this dishonesty and to crush it, is one of the greatest duties of the present generation...