Word: counteracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young blooming Princess Emma is said to have entered the room, exclaiming reproachfully, "Oh Helen, / should never refuse to be a queen!" To counteract the sensation produced by this generally believed tale, Princess Emma's mother herself arranged to convey a subsequently made proposal of marriage from King Willem to Princess Emma, and gave out that the "surprised" Princess cast down her eyes, exclaiming, "Oh Mother! Do you want me to accept...
Industrial reforms are being instigated to counteract the industrial hazards responsible for 15% of the 100,000 blind...
...Smith. He uses all the means at his disposal to enforce a law which should be enforced solely by the Federal authorities. Smith is greatly misunderstood in the South, because of the common belief of his attitude toward wetness. But his record as governor of New York should counteract this. It is an enviable record, in a state which was carried by Harding by 1,000,000 people and by Coolidge by half a million, that Smith, a Democrat should have been four times reelected governor...
...second question produced an inquisitive uproar. Doubtless, the Anti-Saloon League needed the money, doubtless Mr. Kresge's conduct in giving the Anti-Saloon League half a million dollars was highly to be praised. Yet, would $500,000 spent in anti-saloon propaganda ("educational purposes") be sufficient to counteract the unfortunate effect produced upon those persons who would instantly suppose that if a man commits adultery with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner in his hypocrisy...
Even in the eighties, unusual distractions were beginning to appear; and this solicitous parent was distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said...