Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play was hard, and speedy, and kept the Arena in an uproar. The visitors started with a rush, and with the Fryberger brothers leading fierce charges down the ice, time and again pierced the Crimson defense. Only the stellar work of Morrill at goal saved more than one Green counter in these opening minutes...
...decided that the U. S. should enter the World Court with five reservations. Notes were sent to the Adherent Powers; scarcely an answer came back; Europe was not willing to accept glibly the U. S. scheme of entrance. Early last autumn the Adherent Powers met at Geneva, attached counter-reservations to the U. S. reservations. Several Senators who had voted for the World Court did an about-face. President Coolidge in his Kansas City speech (TIME, Nov. 22) said that, unless the U. S. reservations were accepted in toto, he was through with the World Court...
...after the opening, Fortier's team almost dribbled past Morrill and a moment later Tudor flicked the puck past Laire on a pass from Zarakov. Several minutes after this, another shot almost passed Morrill. A flash of leather knee pads, a resounding thud, and he had averted another potential counter...
...sleeves bonily. His trousers stopped dejectedly far short of his shoes. Over his spectacles fell a strand of straw-colored hair. His Adam's apple gulped ominously within his amp'e collar. He was a grind, a poor boy, a social catastrophe? but he left his books and store-counter to win the big relay race for Ohio State University. Pennants waved; men cheered; girls screamed. A hero emerged from a "poor...
...successors with such pious fidelity, in public to speak the language of the highest and the strictest principles, and in private to pursue and possess any sort of woman." Gladstone's sons have retorted by telling Captain Wright that he is a liar; Captain Wright has delivered the last counter-check in suing the Gladstone. All in all it is a nice mess, and "the tight little isle" is much more wrought up about it than America was when Ruport Hughes attempted to belittle Washington,--Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins were under suspicion at the same time...