Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action taken at the meeting is expected to supplement the Student Council's work in connection with the University War Memorial, AVC Chairman Stanley G. Karson '49 explained. The Council in concentrating its efforts to secure support for the Student Activities Counter only from the alumni...
...anybody ever was, he is a born mailman. His father was a fourth-class postmaster at Hanson, a hamlet in southern Illinois. When he was 18, Jesse. started clerking, at $11 a week, at his father's postal counter during the summer months. Winters he taught school. At 23, he gave up his $85 a month teaching job to become a $50 a month letter carrier in Shelbyville...
...town meeting lay strangely isolated in the brownish-green emptiness of dead lawns. Inside, the modernistic public lobby was filled with people who had come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy, lend me a nickel...
...Last week the A.P. reported from Warsaw that when uncooperative Shopkeeper Antoni Olesinski complained that his taxes were too high, he was assessed another $1,000. He undressed and threw his clothes on the tax collector's counter. That brought him a $10 fine for disorderly conduct...
...start with, says Flexner, "he read the few books about art available to him, with all the concentration of a virgin deep in tales of love." The books were not much help, so Copley went counter to the conventions and painted as photographically as he knew how. Gradually he evolved a useful and straightforward theory of his own; he concluded that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque...