Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as for exploitation. . . . No oil testings have ever been made. ... If the agreement goes through it will take years to lay out the territory and test for oil.'' This temperate talk notwithstanding, two facts remained clear, 1) A country famed since the dawn of history for resist ance to imperial exploitation or more recently high-powered corporate enterprise had accepted an arrangement which in other countries of the Near East has gen erally meant both. 2) Beneficiary of the deal was neither Britain, whose Near East oil holdings are richest in Iraq and Persia, nor Russia, which...
Before bringing the interview to a close, the reporters could not resist the temptation to ask Mr. Coward's opinion of the Two Women parietal rule. In his suave and characteristically witty manner, he replied, "Why, I should think that one woman at a time should be sufficient for any Harvard student...
...doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude toward union labor. . . . When, however, your own reporters and editors tried to improve the condition by forming a perfectly legal and orthodox trade union, you fought them hoof and claw. ... It is hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst by the pinkish New Republic. But Editor Bliven...
...largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known. If the biggest of battleships hit one of the main piers at full speed, the bridge would only quiver, the ship would be telescoped. The world's greatest and most costly over-water roadway has two decks, no pedestrian walks. The bottom deck for trucks...
...easiest car in the world to handle. A tiny 5 ft. woman would find it far more amenable on a greasy road than any other car I know. Only once or twice, as we drew close to the Watford-Barnet fork, did I drop to third gear, unable to resist the feel of the claws of speed so gently, modestly garbed in their silken sheaths...