Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would seem to the poor unacquainted reader of the CRIMSON that the various pseudo-politicos concerned with the Fisher-HYRC case have so involved themselves in charges and counter-charges that the salient point of importance in the affair has become obscured. The members of this University who voted for Mr. Fisher and who vote for other campaigners expect themselves to be represented by those who seek their vote. If Mr. Fisher and the members of the YRC planning committee had been less concerned with their politics, whatever politics 19-year-old sophomores can be sure of in their...
...something anyhow. There is one really hilarious sketch in which she appears as a salesman for a torrid perfume whose motto is "When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face; in another she soberly walks across the stage in a straight line, carrying a pair of skis and is very funny just doing that; in another she serves as a bean-bag for a couple of South American caballeros...
Transcripts of the pilot's conversations with the control tower disclose, however, that the plane was "cleared for take-off," asserted officials of the air charter service in a counter-charge...
Last week Dr. George B. Collins of the University of Rochester announced that he has developed an automatic scintillation counter with an electronic eye. Dr. Collins uses a disc of anthracene (a coal tar product that is kin to the naphthalene in mothballs). The disc gives off flashes of light when atomic particles shoot through it. Dr. Collins does nothing so crude as to watch the flashes of light with his eye and a microscope. He pipes the light through a Lucite rod into a photomultiplier tube that can count as many as 100,000 flashes a second...
...some kinds of radiation, Dr. Collins says, his scintillation counter is at least ten times as sensitive as a conventional Geiger counter. It can also distinguish between different types of particles, which the Geiger counter cannot do without screens or other extra equipment...