Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modest circular to every voter costs about ten cents a head, and totals over a million in itself. As campaign funds have run in the past, they have allowed an average expenditure of only about thirty cents to the voter. One can easily see, therefore, that the charges and counter-charges of both Republicans and Democrats upon this subject are for the most part arrant nonsense. And of Mr. Davis, who has seemed most disposed to press the subject, it would be well to ask, in the words of Professor Munro: "What do you think of an electorate that...
...Manhattan, "the most expensive private litigation ever known" continued in its eighth year. Referee James A. O'Gorman sat four hours daily listening to depositions in the tangle of suits and counter suits that stand between the seven heirs of the late Jay Gould...
...educated man with whom the average American college graduate compares unfavorably. Granting this, it does not follow that the Harvard system is inferior to that of Oxford or Cambridge. In England the two great universities are only parts of a large and comprehensive system of education which finds no counter-part in the United States. Most students at Oxford and Cambridge come from one class of society well marked from other classes by its long tradition of cultural activity. This is not true in the United States to nearly so large a degree. Many American college graduates are the first...
...Romance, juggling nations, kings, comets, peasants in soaring obedience to unreined fancy. His characters talk as no man talked, act as no man acted, exist in a blazing phantasmal world where almost anything is almost sure to happen. Lacking a word, he coins one; where History or Science runs counter to his conception, he remakes History and Science. He is sheer imaginative flame run wild like a cosmic prairie fire. You can laugh at him-you cannot deny his vitality...
...business district. Its main waiting room contains 26,500 sq. ft.; other waiting rooms account for 22,000 sq. ft. more. The building proper is eight stories in height; in addition to the general offices of the Pennsylvania and the Milwaukee, the structure will house a dining room, lunch counter, cafeteria, tea room, barber shop, beauty parlor, fruit stand, tobacco shop, book store-and last but not least, a two-cell jail, a chapel and a hospital...