Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband's bubbles as vice-president of the company, which she watched carefully as it developed a turnover of some ten millions per annum. By no means content with her across-the-soda-counter knowledge of the public, she plunged last spring into politics, giving firmly-entrenched Congressman Fred A. Britten a lively fight for his Republican nomination. Chicago society has long since ceased to regard her as a picturesque new- comer. Now the socially registered folk say: "If Bertha Baur will join...
...store, chatting with D'Ascali about the days when he studied music in Milan. Tonight he was not so nice; why, he seemed positively mocking. Why did he not stop singing when she spoke to him? The cobbler, leering, continued his chant, and standing at his counter Miss Davis suddenly recognized the aria. "Ah, Gioielli . . . gioielli della Mad-ho-ho-han-ah. . . ." Jewels of the Madonna! She remembered now. The rings, the brooches-she had left them in the toe of her shoe. Arrested, Louis D'Ascali denied his guilt...
...most of the leading numbers. Breaking his tie with Captain Todd for the greatest number of hits, he has forged ahead with 26 to his credit on the score books. He has passed Sullivan since last week in the number of times he has crossed the rubber with a counter, having amassed a total of 20 runs, one sixth of the total number that has been scored by the Crimson this year. He has proved himself the fleetest member of Captain Todd's aggregation by passing his leader in the number of bases stolen, holding the lead with a half...
...Counter threats. Militant "anti-Ignatz" demonstrations throughout Poland subsequently became so serious that President Moscicki was obliged to proclaim a state of emergency in Lemberg and a state of siege in Tarnopol, where rebellious Ukranians rioted and demanded the separation of East Galicia from Poland...
...author's opinion, was due chiefly to the balance of power, armaments and counter-armaments, diplomacy, national honor, and the press. He shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...