Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no space here to enter into the various ramifications that have brought this change to pass. From the discovery of a secret Russo-German treaty, ultimatum, reply, charge of ambiguity, counter-reply, and second ultimatum have followed "fast and ever faster," until the whole procedure is now entangled in a maze of words and assumed misunderstandings. And more than once has the disruption of the entire gathering been threatened. The atmosphere at Genoa is as calmly deliberative as must have been that in the vicinity of the Kilkenhy cats whose talls were knotted together. In a final effort...
...mark, and open the door for Bolshevism. Their opponents answer with a different suggestion. They assert that the whole affair will sour the Genoa Conference on the hands of Lloyd George, leaving him in disrepute, an opening the way for a triumphant Lenin and Wirth to come forward with counter demands quite in the manner of Stalky himself...
...recently formed what is said to be the first organization of its kind, the Psychological Corporation. This is by no means the first time that the scientist has undertaken to prove that he is a man of business, capable of extracting a livelihood from the public by across-the-counter transaction. But the work of this corporation is something new. By means of psychological tests calculated to reveal the mental capacity of a candidate for a position, it will be able to tell the business man whom to hire, and why. If he wants an executive or clerk...
...Fogg Lecture Room, Emerson D, or the New Lecture Hall, some thirty or forty rows to the rear. There is always a restless shifting about of the M's and N's, which to the Y or Z in the shadowland fringe of the lecture room raises just enough counter pulsations in the atmosphere to necessitate a delicate focussing of the outer ear toward the lecturer as a sunflower to the sun, or else induces that semi-sonambulent state of psychological detachment from the boredom of the immediate intellectual rationing. The dodge for those who care is to plead astigmatism...
Plainly there is great need for educative measures, counter propaganda. At present plans are on foot for, so to speak, popularizing the Federal Reserve System. It is unfortunate that it must be popularized because many things suffer in the process. But it must be done, so that the United States Senate will be aware of intelligent criticism if it proposes to meddle with this delicate machine. And yet here is only one phase of the financial problem that needs clarification. The fundamentals of exchange and foreign trade are not so vital to welfare, except that it is chiefly ignorance...