Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of '23 I approached the news counter at the Mother Chautauqua on Lake Chautauqua. "What are you wishing this morning?" said the courteous clerk. "I am wishing for what you cannot supply. I am wishing for a current News Sheet which will give me the news, briefly, concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although...
...miles. An arc of this circle is as straight as a real line can be, and truly measures the shortest distance between two points in the universe as it actually exists?that is, in a universe full of conflicting masses of electricity and spinning bodies whose pulls and counter-pulls "warp" space "out of shape." But a mathematical system for measuring universal space cannot properly be called "geometry," which means "earth-measurement"?Dr. James Pierpont, Yale University...
...killing gun. In Louisville, Ky., one Charles J. Smith eyed the shooting gallery nightly as he hobbled home on crutches. Men seemed to have fun popping the gaudy ducks, and the ducks did not mind even when they were hit. One night last week he hobbled up to the counter, threw down his crutches, paid a dime. His first shot did no harm. His second he put carefully through his own head. In his pocket police found a note to his mother...
...team out of the hole in the final minute of the third period when he passed Cumings after a sensational run, tying the score. The first two overtime periods passed scoreless but in the third session O'Donnell, substitute center, sent the puck into the net for the winning counter, on a pass from St. Germain...
...have always found that any declarations made on this subject lead to Stock Exchange maneuvers by unscrupulous persons holding Tsarist securities. The Franco-Russian counter-claims will shortly be considered by a joint commission...