Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, which argues that the roads are on the way to recovery and should be let alone. The conflict of interests involving the big roads, the weak roads, the Government, the public, and railroad labor is still so stubborn and at the same time so obscured by propaganda and counter-propaganda that only the future can decide the outcome of the issue. Security holders, who have the most to lose by Government operation, are anxiously watching the earning rate. If it continues to improve the Government bogy will disappear; if dividends begin to be passed and the railroad workers continue...
...Counter Proposals. The Turkish counter proposals to some of the clauses of the Treaty are now on their way to the Allied capitals and they will be published shortly. Reports from Angora state, however, that the Turks will ask for the settlement of the financial clauses by conversations outside the scope of the Treaty, thus facilitating an early peace. The Turks have, apparently, come round to the British point of view with regard to Mosul. They suggest that the Mosul question be settled amicably between Turkey and Great Britain within one year...
...springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever forget: "Watching this glorious withdrawal of the ice. I was filled with terror and revolt at seeing the awful spoils which the Yenisei bore away in this annual retreat. These were the bodies of the executed counter-revolutionaries . . . Hundreds of these bodies with heads and hands cut off, with mutilated faces and bodies half burned, with broken skulls, floated and mingled with the blocks of ice, looking for their graves: or, turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into...
...goal guards had plenty of time to judge them there was seldom any real chance for scoring. Later in the session, however, the Crimson was able to keep the puck well down in Yale territory, due chiefly to the alertness of Crosby. Yale answered with a short counter attack as the period closed, and continued it after the intermission. The Crimson defense soon stiffened up and the puck was taken to the other end of the rink where Jenkins was called upon to make a number of difficult stops. It was at this point that the University missed several chances...
...West Virginia is the Vanguard of the coming struggle that is to put to the test our institutions and our ideals. The story of the last five months of armed uprising and counter uprising with the result that 1800 men are now being tried for murder and treason is well known...