Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar it all sounds! And there is another interesting touch contributed by Mr. Masterman: "The chief opposition rally has been made by the fundamentalists, who, to counter the lubrications of successful authors, have been enlisting successful business men. Thus we read of the manager of a drygoods store asserting that If she Bible is not true we are done for!; and the manager of the southern railway affirms his belief in Fundamentalism in words that might have been used by the late William J. Bryan...
...Negotiations. There were no clearly developed offers and counter offers as in the negotiations with the French. The two sides got together and gradually worked toward a settlement on the basis of Italy's capacity to pay. When the terms of the settlement were within reach, the Italians made an offer, the terms of which were carefully veiled from the public. Journalists got the idea that it was for the payment of $2,100,000,000 over 70 years. To this a counter offer was made by the Americans of about $2,500,000,000. From these two offers...
...fiends almost before their bones have hardened. They have gnome-like, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, long men's coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap at some shopman's counter, grabbing anything, running like the wind...
...bargain counter...
Relatively small at the same time are the complaints against over-emphasis upon college baseball, because amateur baseball has been kept in proper relation to the other aspects of college life by the dwarfing presence of professional baseball. During the fall season, no such saving counter-attraction has existed. But at last professional football teams have begun to appear. And their growth should be encouraged rather than frowned upon. For only when football teams legitimately professional come to occupy the same space in the public prints and the same interest in the public mind as is now held by professional...