Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When a Greek meets a Greek they start a lunch counter...
...Smith, Kalamazoo heavyweight, spent an evening knocking down Battling Siki, polygamous Sengalese. Next day, Siki's left eye was such a different color from the rest of his face, and of such an unusual shape, that he repaired to the New York Boxing Commission and postponed his en counter with Jock McDonald, sched uled for four days later...
...general treaty either annulled or confirmed all previous Anglo-Russian treaties; recognized the three-mile-limit of territorial waters; specified a fishing agreement; relegated to the stronghold of time all claims, counter-claims and debts relating to the period August, 1914, to February, 1924, when Soviet Russia was recognized by the British Government...
...Settle, if necessary, the method of reaching such an agreement without running counter to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles...
...laid down by U. S. Secretary of State John Hay a quarter of a century ago and amplified by Secretary Hughes at the Washington Conference in 1921 into an assertion of Chinese integrity and an organized attempt to create a strong central government in China. This policy runs counter to the hopes of Japanese business and to the ambitions of Japanese imperialists, who have preferred a weak China divided into political spheres of influence and wholesale economic concessions...