Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the tutorial system and the concentration plan there still remain two obsolete reminders, the annual publication of the rank list and the degree with general honors, which run counter to the purposes of the new institutions by putting too much emphasis on grades at the expense of true intellectual accomplishment...
...outside the colleges, with a pious hope that the President will save our present economic system over the misguided heads of its leaders. It may be joined, as it is joined by men high in the councils of the Administration, with projects, such as the platted farms, which run counter to other projects, such as the stabilization of agricultural prices...
...President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia received the awful news that his main army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME, Dec. 25). To the League Commission Bolivia proposed an armistice. The Commission relayed this proposal last week to Paraguay, received a counter proposal for an eleven-day truce which Bolivia accepted. Then the Com- mission wired Dictator Terra and his El Pueblo siren shrieked...
...ourselves, rejecting the world, washing our hands of it altogether, that seemed to me renegade to the doctrine of the Fantasia; and certainly I knew it would be a retrogression in myself". There is much more of this kind of explanation, and it is impossible to feel, despite "Point Counter Point", that Mr. Murry is an insincere man. One is only reminded of Harriet Martineau's statement that she was "ready to accept the universe", and of Carlyle's comment on it. Mr. Murry is still unwilling...
Even though the bootlegger and the speakeasy were humorously accepted in the beginning, there is no large class which preserves loyalty to them today. But those whose experience antedates prohibition remember that the saloon, distinguished by the matter of fact consumption of hard liquor by men standing around a counter, was an institution both ungraceful and, in the true sense of the word, vicious. Of course there existed in the cities a wealthy class able to purge the saloon, as they now purge the speakeasy and the brothel, of its superficially disagreeable features, but from a national point of view...