Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gatti's first year was in a vague sort of copartnership with Andreas Dippel, who directed the German operas. The German and Italian factions lined up according to the logic of this double management. There were intrigues, counter-intrigues, petitions to the Board of Directors, blasts in the newspapers. At the end of the season Gatti was reengaged. The Board of Directors made it clear that he would continue as sole manager...
...Banks of the Wabash. One of those general store pictures with all the veteran cinema commodities cluttering the counter. Cranberry Corners, moonlight on the river, stage rubes, a fire, a flood, faithful love are most prominent. The flood and the faithful love of the benign Mary Carr are the only bits worth while...
...passage to Princeton on the special Fall River beat, it was learned last night from Mr. Frank Knapp of Leavitt & Pierce's. But before arrangements can be definitely completed, it will be necessary for 200 more students to enroll in the blue book which is now suspended from the counter in Leavitt and Pierce...
...second period a determined counter-offensive was launched by the Crimson, which bore fruit in a rushed goal from Eldridge's corner kick in the middle of the period. But there the attack was checked. The play was fast and furious in the closing minutes, and Lamont missed several attempts at the goal by the narrowest of margins, but the stellar backfield work of the Spring-field eleven, especially of Captain Adams at left fullback, prevented...
Compulsory attendance is based on the contrary idea--namely that to the average undergraduate education is distasteful enough to prevent his attendance at lectures, and that fear of eventual failure is not strong enough to counter balance this distastefulness. Incidentally dull and unpopular lecturers are spared the humiliation of speaking to empty benches...