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Word: counteracts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins, in some way not yet conclusively proved, counteract the toxins of syphilitic spirochetes. We have patients so treated who for ten years now have been able to live and work normally. Without this malaria treatment they probably would be insane or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prize | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...failure of the University forward passing attack, counted upon to counteract the strong defense of the Red and Blue line, will mean that Coach Arnold Horween '20 and his assistants will probably spend some time this week developing and polishing off the Crimson aerial game. At Philadelphia the line did not hold long enough the passer was generally hurried, and the possible receivers were covered by watchful Quakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TEAM IN GOOD CONDITION | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...sole possible explanation for this reversal of the laws of man and nature is that Boston's antecedents are too puritanical in the unfavorable sense, to permit even the abundance of professorships to counteract its influence. The blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCARLET LETTERS | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

...presidium deems Trotzky's and Vuyovitch's remaining in the Communist International impossible because of their violent struggle against the organization by means of underground printing plants coupled with organizing illegal centers and inciting malicious slander against Soviet Russia abroad. To preserve unity in Lenin ranks, to counteract the undermining activities of the oppositionist rebels, considering previous warnings sufficient and that to further refrain from disciplinary measures becomes dangerous and impossible, the presidium of the Communist International unanimously decided to expel Trotzky and Vuyovitch from the Communist International's executive body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trotzky Out | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...spirit of American fair play should inspire Mr. Ford to impose upon himself the solemn duty of taking steps to counteract that influence with the same energy and enterprise that was employed in his name to spread the ideas he now acknowledges were false. As the world's richest man, Henry Ford has the unique opportunity of making an amende honorable to the Jewish people by sponsoring a world-wide campaign of education against national chauvinism, religious bigotry and racial antagonism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Apology to Jews | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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