Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seery, counter-man extraordinary, bus-boy of the first water, is one of those who stand and wait in Arthur's Incorporated. He cannot understand the reason for the agitation and concern over the rapid eating habits of the student body...
...employer rose from his rocking-chair to indicate that questions might be addressed to him. Harried by life, the storekeeper distrusted all men, but most of all, those who worked in his store. He never allowed John Shedd to make change for a customer. On the long counter, polished and fragrant with the memory of countless bags of coffee and packages of flour and chocolate pushed across its surface, John Shedd did up his parcel, tool: the customer's coin, and stood waiting for his boss (who was usually occupied elsewhere) to come and get the change...
...Freshman soccer outfit outplayed and outscored the Worcester Academy team by 2 to 0. Captain Vogel of the Freshman played a keenly aggressive game and scored one of his team's two points. Lyman, Vogel's companion in the forward line, was responsible for the other counter...
During the whole course of the evening a refreshments counter will be in operation...
...Corn-sweet over with the winning touchdown four minutes after the opening whistle. Not content with the one score, the Providence eleven continued its aggressive tactics, and while unable to tally again, kept the Elis so much on the run as to render them unable to launch a decisive counter attack...