Word: outlasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many and ingenious are the devices by which labor unions provide work for strikers, hoping to outwit, outlast the resistance of employers. In New Bedford, Mass., striking textile workers have turned fishermen (TIME, Aug. 13). In Milwaukee, Wis., last week, striking clothing workers turned industrialists...
More at ease, relaxing after the strenuous day, the Baron continued, speaking of the possibility of establishing lighter-than-air service between the two continents. "Just as electricity is superseding petrol and coal, so will the airplane outlast the Zeppelin. These craft are too unwieldy...
...reached the pinnacle of fame. It is almost ironical that Thomas Hardy, whose name will in time probably stand at the head of the list of his eminent contemporaries, should outlive them all. Furthermore, it is strange that an author whose "classic pessimism" is his outstanding characteristic should outlast his own age and live to a comfortable and happy senility in a generation whose chaos might justify his pessimism...
...last week all illusions were shattered when President Coolidge informed the press that wooden bridges had covers merely to protect the lower timbers from the elements which would rot them. Such bridges will frequently outlast a succession of iron bridges. The President told of a wooden covered span near Springfield, Mass., which has been standing more than a century...
Life is short, but the newspapers that record one day are sometimes 60 pages** long. Knowledge is power, but the old-style encyclopedias that contain it are so heavy that only a powerful arm can lift them. Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket. "Condense what you write," this age has said; "compress it, synchronize it, cut it down." For borne time such reflections as these have animated the mind of Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske...