Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mutually agreed, it was announced today, that the proposal of Harvard to drop Princeton from the 1927 football schedule and substitute the University of Michigan was counter to understanding and practice of the "triple alliance," and on the suggestion of Harvard it had been accordingly withdrawn...
...public property. In the light of a previous rapprochement between Yale and Princeton in the matter of athletic policy it is to be hoped that today will find the so-called "Big Three," united in the only union that can be permanent leadership in adjusting sport with conflicting and counter-balancing interests...
...through his representatives the terms of an armistice which he was willing to conclude with the embattled revolutionaries (TIME, May 17 et seq.). General Moncada accepted the terms of armistice with slight modifications. Loomed a peace conference under U. S. auspices, at which Usurper Chamorro, and the "revolutionaries" (really "counter revolutionaries") may compose their differences...
...Valenciennes, France, topers sipped blear-eyed one midnight last week. Suddenly they stared aghast as a lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...
...Eitel Friederich, 51, second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; Princess Sophie Charlotte, 47, daughter of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He alleged that "her continual efforts to secure employment in the motion picture industry have become a source of humiliation to the House of Hohenzollern." She promptly filed a counter suit accusing him of degeneracy. It was recalled that she married him in 1906, virtually at the command of the Kaiser, who wished to bring the vast wealth of the Oldenburgs within the Hohenzollern family. Should the divorce be granted she is expected to marry Baron Plettenburg to whom...