Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these policies run counter to British policy in Egypt for vital and obvious reasons. Zaghlul Pasha would probably, if elected, have hesitated to put any of his policies into effect, for the simple reason that to do so could mean only war with Britain. But as Premier he would have been persona nan grata to the London Government, because, as before, he would undoubtedly carry on propaganda through his Nationalist organization, the Wadf, against the "usurper" of Egyptian rights...
...Germany, and Italy for mutual protection of boundaries seems, on its face, a damming of the war stream at its source. For how should a great war start with these nations allied? But its ulterior significance is being widely discussed in England. It is attacked and defended as a counter alliance against the Russo-Japanese rapprochement which, though partially secret, is generally believed to provide for mutual support in the exploitation of China...
Shortly after eight o'clock, Herr Engel, carrying his food from the counter, was attacked by the truck-driver--one of the strongest men in Cambridge, it is said, and one of the most bibulous who punched Herr Engel in the left cheek. Herr Engel, resentful, struck his assailant with his cane. Both men picked up chairs but Herr Engel was able to parry only three of the legs, receiving from the fourth a gash across the eye. Herr Engel, it appears, threw the truck-driver under the table and although his assailent was withdrawn from the restaurant without further...
...Attitudes are perhaps the most important and surely the most lasting part of that stuff called education which colleges dispense. There are those who think that a college should function only in the class room, but it is infinitely easier to believe with the multitude that a properly proportioned counter-poise of other interests can only widen and enlarge the value of undergraduate life. What is impossible is to attempt to mix the two; Athletics can contribute no more to "indifference" than "indifference" can contribute to athletics. But together they make a full man. If we are going to have...
...would, of course, be understood first that all counter-claims by France against Great Britain would be superseded and, secondly, that if and when payments derived by Great Britain from European War debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for the full discharge of British obligations toward the United States oyer the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's Allies...