Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, much freshened by a summer of comparative rest, nine men assembled quietly in the old Senate Chamber of the Capitol. They had donned their long black vestments in their robing room and now quietly sat down behind a long counter and resumed their work. Frequently they do not leave their little room in June until after Congress has gone vacationing, and usually they return to it in the fall long before Congress takes up its more ostentatious labors. In this season of the year they usually have the great Capitol to themselves, except for a few attendants...
...annual event; and, in view of this probability, it will be interesting to see what course the so-called "Big Three" will follow. Participation in such a contest, involving as it does both greater national interest than over before, and the hysterical atmosphere of a tremendous crowd, undoubtedly runs counter to the more reasonable and less puerile attitude toward football which those who have the well-being of football as a college sport closest at heart are striving to foster. In becoming the greatest spectacle in American life, football has concerned itself too much with the interest of the spectators...
...even to the Valleyhead Infirmary. To bring relief, two young surgeons, despite the secret warning of Ben Ormerod, the spokesman of the employees, attempt to run the blockade. Dr. Eric Miller is killed; and his friend, Dr. John Wrigley, overcome by the disaster, enlists the other doctors in a counter strike...
...Turks across the Mosul frontier," the League next announced that it would send a commission to investigate these deportation charges. Turkey then declared before the League that she would refuse to permit such a League committee to enter Turkish territory, branded the British charges as false, and made counter charges of British excursions over the disputed frontier...
...Baltimore two young Chinese, dressed in department store clothes, entered a restaurant, ordered a meal of rice and soup. The cook, one Charley Lee, withdrew to prepare it. To the proprietor, who sat beaming behind his counter, one of the men beckoned with a rolled newspaper; he approached. When he had come to within a yard of the table, the fellow dropped his paper; the other fired. Lee rushed from the kitchen; the murderers were gone, his employer was dead. A bubble of blood from his lips incarnadined the newspaper...