Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rule abolishing all mud or artificial kicking tees and the one advancing the kick-off from the 40 to the 50-yard line counter balance one another. The first makes it much more difficult to make a long kick and the second lessons the distance by 10 yards. The two teams are brought closer together...
...much better is the "status quo"! One more fence to climb, qua fence, one more handicap to the assertion of individual initiative, one more necessity for clerks and clerkesses, checks, and counter-checks...
Thus by this treaty Premier Mussolini has secured to Italy the "martyred city" which d'Annunzio immortalized for Italians, and there cannot be any doubt that the Fascist Leader has achieved his greatest diplomatic triumph. Not only has Italy gained Fiume, but a counter-balance to French influence in Central Europe and, by the treaty of friendship, security on her eastern border...
...eight polling places are: the Widener Library Reading Room, the Business School Library, the main corridor of Langdell Hall, the main corridor of the Medical School, the Smith Halls Common Room, the Crimson Building, Leavitt and Peirce's, and the news counter of the Union. Blank ballots will be left beside the boxes, but owing to the system of signing the ballots, poll-watchers will not be employed...
...half finished it i exclaimed 'I know who wrote this--Manley Hudson!' The similarity of the ideas expressed in the plan to those previously expressed by Professor Hudson is more than striking. The one possible exception is the section on International Law, which, however, does not go counter to anything he has written...