Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When fraternity men held a counter-rally, Brown President Henry M. Wriston dropped in. Accusing Brown's fraternities of being "discriminatory, non-democratic and anti-intellectual," Wriston gave them a short, blunt warning: "Either represent a majority of the students-or you will not survive on this campus...
Beneath the charges and counter-charges one fact seemed clear: if TV transmission should change tomorrow to UHF, all sets (including Zenith's) would require conversion to the higher frequencies. Zenith's point apparently was that its set could be converted more quickly and inexpensively than the others...
...course, and it goes like this and always leaves the demonstrator on the rug ... then, after all, that's all wrong, and something called Arlberg (not in Life magazine, so who knows?) is really ... can't have your can sticking out ... really an almost metaphysical thing, you know: counter-rotation is the essence...
Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, the fourth volume of his third-person autobiography,* is essentially an arrangement of O'Casey's counter-compliments to the Irish reviewers, clerics and laymen who refused to take him on those terms...
...varsity hockey team, blessed with some 15 men of better than average ability, extended itself only slightly at the Arena yesterday afternoon and shellacked an eager but mediocre MIT squad, 13 to 6. In the preliminary engagement the freshman whipped their BU counter-parts...