Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceased to be a disturbing element. The results were telephoned through as they were made known to the Debating Hall of the Union. It was crowded with undergraduates and as the results came trickling in and it was seen which way the poll was going the cheers and counter cheers of the different parties roused excitement to a fever pitch. In the University election one of the Candidates returned is in favour of the admission of women to the University, so there will be many feminine hearts made glad as a result...
...various Russian cities, including Petrograd, under the old Russian Empire. At the start of the Great War he joined the army as an officer in the First Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guard, which was the only unit of the army that stood its ground before the German counter-attack in the late fall of 1914. Mr. Brasol is an authority on all questions of Russian government, and has made a special study of the Bolshevist regime. He has written books on various subjects, among others. "Socialism vs. Civilization", "The World at the Cross-Roads" and "The Balance Sheet...
...Verdun past Fere-Champenoise and the marshes of Saint Gond almost to the gates of Paris--German cavalry were in the town of Claye for a few hours, but fifteen miles away--it was the army of Gallieni, on the extreme right flank of Von Kluck, that began the counter attack which dislocated the German line and gave Foch his chance to break through. Thus these old cochers of the boulevards who drove an army of thousands to the battle-ground saved, if you will, not only Paris but much besides, as most Americans are glad to remember...
...University team is going to find Dartmouth an opponent hard enough in itself, but the organized support of two thousand enthusiastic "rooters" can only be met by counter-support from the University, organized and trained...
...carrying out religiously the spirit and the letter of the "Hard Cider" campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", led to certain unpleasantness with officials in Cambridge-port. Campaigns in the "Colleges in Cambridge in New England" have always been featured by torch-light processions stump-speeches, charges and counter-charges as vigorous and often as vituperative as those in an alderman's election in a closely contested ward...