Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raining hard when the President's train puffed into Jamestown, N. Dak. next morning. Pulling on a slicker, he set out in an open car for a two-hour look at WPA projects, could not resist gloating over his luck when he returned...
...went on the rocks when Sleuth Boatwright, posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service's scheme was known at the Department of Justice. Enraged, Attorney General Cummings declared he would resist any attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover or his men. Professing great surprise, the Treasury investigated its own investigators. In addition to writing Homer Cummings an apology, Secretary Morgenthau demoted Assistant Chief Murphy to a district post, Sleuth Boatwright to that of a field operative...
...Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Hahnemann Medical College made Dr. Weaver a professor, gave him a Rufus B. Weaver Anatomical Museum, gave "Harriet" an honored vault. In 1925 he retired from teaching. Last week when arteriosclerosis and his 95 years made him unable to resist longer, Death took Dr. Weaver...
...some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons out of four can be brought to the second "deep" state; and one out of two will go into the deepest trance of all, the somnambulistic. Highly susceptible people may hypnotize themselves, accidentally or intentionally, by staring...
Office. Hitherto Japan and Germany have been so deep in diplomatic cahoots that Russia has openly been arming to resist an East and West "pinching of Communism" between the armed forces of Germany and Japan. Last week, however, the Japanese War Office liked its story of an economic pact by Germany and China behind Japan's back so much that at once in Peiping "reprisals" were taken by Japan's swashbucklers...