Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bronchioles. They take rides on the invisible droplets that each human exhales as he breathes. Whole colonies of them are ejected with sputum onto sidewalks, into street cars, in hotel lobbies. They are particularly thick in tenements, barracks, orphan asylums, workhouses, penitentiaries. But most people are able to resist them, to kill them as they grow...
...autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more easily. Whether a student of strong character can procure his liquor easily without a car or can resist the steering gear's natural tendency to veer toward a blind tiger he does...
...under whom Sun fought as a general only last year) and Chang have momentarily the upper hand in China. But what will happen in a year, a month, a week? Can Chang and Wu resist the great encircling movement financed by Soviet Russia, the teeth of which are Feng's armies in the north and the Cantonese Bolsheviks in the south...
Throughout the War he was regarded in Allied countries as the vigilant apostle of preparedness to whom France owed her ability to resist the German hordes. At present the so-called "revisionist historians" are busy with piles of documents released from the secret archives of Austria-Hungary and Russia, on the basis of which M. Poincarè is charged with being the chief and successful arch-plotter of the World...
...drug gave the same symptoms on the healthy human body as did a certain disease. Therefore that disease and that drug poisoned the body similarly. If a minute portion of the drug were given to a patient so diseased, the minute portion would stimulate the body to resist the disease. By "proving," by testing out on healthy humans the whole armamentarium of drugs, the homeopaths worked out a, vast array of drugs specific for practically every disease symptom. The regular school of medicine rejects the law of similars, but approximates it by the current concept of immunities. Vaccines give...