Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more men, the defense would have been able to maintain mobile reserves close enough to the north coast to repulse the attack there. "Dependence," said he, "must not be placed primarily or even predominantly upon mechanical means?field guns or machine guns?but upon mobile troops and aircraft, counter-attacking whenever and wherever necessary...
...choice is demanding extension of the "honors" courses. This in itself is an excellent desideratum the ideal of educating a man in the ways of educating himself. But while the liberal demands more "honors" courses, in the same breath he shrieks "Paternalism!" Do not these two war-cries run counter to one another? Both are pleas for the university type of work and condemnations of the "little college" idea...
...charcoal independently of their chemical composition; of the second, only a small proportion are poisonous and these are all known and can be guarded against. Irritant smokes present a different problem and may be invented in deadlier forms than are at present known but, as they are invented, a counter-invention is sure to come. In any case, as Prof. Haldane points out, the primary object of gas warfare is to reduce the efficiency of opponents by making them keep their gas masks on and to deny them the use of the ground by saturating it with blistering fluids...
...thereafter reading is assigned the student, and there follows a discussion of the reading done since the last conference. This discussion is the meat of the tutorial work. The student is expected not only to outline but to criticise, the tutor meets the criticism not with contradiction but with counter-criticism and with argument, and the "conference" ends a literary conversation, in which for the moment the distinction between instructor and instructed has dropped away...
...peasant representatives, who had threatened not to sow crops or to improve the land unless long leases were made and guaranteed, were flabbergasted, as well they might be. They asked if this new policy did not run counter to the Bolshevik Constitution and received in reply from Stalin: "We wrote the Constitution. We can change it also...