Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty discouraging. But I know that Mr. King and other members of the Business School who are laboring under the same misapprehension will, now that they understand the fine motives which inspired the Lampoon to this beneficent act, be more than ready to rescind their criticism and counter with gratitude to their benefactors. Talbot Wegg...
...responded with a counter query, asking since when had he become a convert to shooting only by order of a court; but this was left unanswered...
...arguments of the enemies of the Amendment, its upholders counter thus...
...status of the U. S. as the great creditor nation of the world is already bringing new and strange borrowers to Uncle Sam's loan counter in Wall Street. By an irony of fate, many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process...
...proceedings by injecting into a motion, expressing confidence in China's willingness to stamp out the opium trade, a resolution placing the Powers on record as determined to abide by a policy of non-intervention in Chinese affairs. After a prolonged palaver over this and a counter-motion blaming China, the whole matter was dropped...