Word: counteracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of 1922 . . . the tears streaming down her face, carrying in her hand a little piece of hemlock." At the outset it appeared that Mr. Houghton had been sent to St. Louis to counteract a political canard that Mr. Hoover had been unkind to Germans. But at the end he said, "This is not politics...
...Brown Derby's personal appearances, outside of its native East, were finished for 1928. It had toured 10.000 miles. The last days of the campaign were to be spent arousing Boston and New England. Philadelphia and the mid-Atlantic section and finally 45-electoral-vote New York. To counteract the Brown Derby's touring in the Midlands, the Republicans sent out no less a figure than Charles Evans Hughes to St. Joseph, Mo., and Chicago. A speech by Nominee Hoover was tentatively planned for Nov. 2 in St. Louis...
...appears a communication the writer of which looks ahead to the time when many of the more responsible undergraduate positions may have become paid jobs. The loss of glamor in the high places and the growing proclivity of students to study are evident today. Must the assurance of pay counteract these forces to keep life in the extra-curricular work in the University...
...British Foreign Office strove to counteract any such impression by welcoming U. S. correspondents to a charming little tea. Urbane Foreign Office officials pointed out at this function that the Coolidge-Kellogg note contains the following conciliatory passage: "The Government of the United States remains willing to use its best efforts to obtain a basis of further naval limitation . . . and is willing to take into consideration in any conference the special needs of France, Italy or any other naval power for the particular class of vessels deemed by them most suitable for their defense. ... It expects on the part...
Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...