Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a man slips out of a store with something picked up from the counter, he is called a sneak thief. For the man who slips away from the Reading Room with a Library book in his pocket or his bag, or concealed among his own books, we may drop the "thief" if we like, because in most cases he means to return the book, and in some cases does so, but he is no less a sneak, for he does in an underhand way and to secure a mean advantage for himself, what he cannot do openly and with...
...writer opens herself to a palpable counter-thrust. If college men are not numbered among the labor agitators, the Non-Partisan Leaguers, and other active ultra-modernists, is it necessarily because they have failed to consider these new movements? Such a conclusion smugly assumes that the movements are necessarily right, and that a failure to champion them is due to sheer ignorance. It is not beyond imagination to suppose that the college student might think otherwise, and that he shuns them not so much from ignorance as form too much knowledge...
...Melrose skaters well on to their own ice through most of the game, but at times the latter were able to repulse the attack with some speedy individual thrusts from the Melrose wings. Their success in keeping down the Crimson's score, however, was due not to these occasional counter offensives but to the excellent defensive play they exhibited when pressed by the University skaters...
...cooperation was able to break up most of the attacks before the Marquette wings reached an advantageous shooting position. Those who did get by found another strong opposition at the net, for Dole, repeatedly turned away a shower of hard drives. It was due to his alertness and the counter attacks launched by the forward line that prevented the superior team from scoring till the last half of the work...
...meeting of the Shannon Post of the American Legion to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Varsity Club, Mr. W. A. T. Anglin '18 will speak on "Counter-Battery Work and Some Aspects of the Intelligence Service of the Canadian Expeditionary Force." To this meeting all members of the University R. O. T. C. Unit have been invited...