Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even wise Dr. Jackson could resist a long toot on the horn of international brotherhood. Last week he joined Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller, able Manhattan dermatologist and Director-General of the Association, in calling the cruise "a dramatic and remarkably successful step in the establishment of permanent goodwill between the Americas...
...demurely high-handed, modern minx who got what she deserved--and liked it. Rene de la Valliere began by toying decorously with her mother's lovers. Count Kardak was a wise and charming old sybarite who should have known better. In fact he did, but how could he resist the idea of inviting Renee to his remote little principality for the wedding of his earnest, dull and handsome heir, Max, to the buxom girl scout duchess of the neighboring principality? In the ensuing battle of wits with wits and with with brawn, Count Anton looked on helplessly at some amazing...
...TIME'S owners, you represent the small group with money which will resist stubbornly and blockheadedly to the very last any effort to change the evil state of affairs in America which Roosevelt is so admirably battling. Your colored reporting on the Morgan testimony was revolting. Your effort to work up sympathy for an old -* rolling in money who was too blind and grasping to contribute toward the expenses of the very government which was trying to prevent his kind from being exterminated was disgusting, and unfortunately there are more counts against you of the same nature...
...have quite definite information that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...Berlin's Church of St. Paul the Apostle the No. 1 Emergency Pastor, Rev. Martin Niemoeller, urged 1,000 blue-clad boys of the Pastor's newly-formed German Bible Circle to "Resist! Resist! Resist!" Bravely chanting the Protestant youth hymn ending "Ever Faithful to God!" the adolescents marched out of the church, attempted to parade. Menaced by brawny Prussian police, they rolled up their banners, put away their band instruments, scurried home. Priests had been sent to prison camps, despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic. Not to be downed, the Catholic Bishop...