Word: repelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth's features were formed, he should appreciate and enjoy Professor Mather's course. Of course, as in all elementary sciences the new and unfamiliar technique to be mastered and the arbitrary manner of setting forth principles and facts to be memorized is apt to repel the would be scientist. In spite of the popular conceptions of geologists in boy scout uniforms, hammering at rocks or partly fossilized among their dried bones and museum specimens, this is one of the most stimulating of the sciences. It teaches one to think in terms of great stretches of space and time...
...Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he showed lumbermen how to poison trees destined for marine construction or telephone poles. The poisons repel molds, fungi, borers and other wood-destroying agents...
...after college life, large numbers of students are excusably irreligious. No college course, let alone one which would presumably contain at least eight hundred men each year, could act for the individual as his own experiences would, and so supply him with real religious convictions. Such a course would repel or make hypocrites of those whom it would be intended to help...
...went home, happy to have met with Yale, to have used into the Bowl, and to have been thrown into the limelight. She made some money, too. Yale, on the other hand, theoretically benefitted from the "breather." Her players were preserved from further injury; her full strength marshalled to repel the furious attack of the Princeton Tigers...
There are too many old pioneers in Arizona who in the early days made their way through cactus and thorn, hunger and thirst, their flintlock rifles ready to repel attack, in order to make Arizona a safe and pleasant place in which to live, for them ever to see Arizona surrender her State rights. While false propaganda has fooled many in the Colorado River fight, and has unwittingly led you into error in the article referred to, yet right must finally triumph...