Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand co-operation from the Congress without returning any on behalf of the Government. ... I can read in no other way your peremptory refusal to discuss the ordinances. . . . The Congress must resist with its prescribed creed of non-violence such measures of legalized terrorism as have been imposed in various provinces...
...them grew up suddenly, acquired the sex maturity of three-year-old monkeys. Those not treated with pituitary hormones usually developed paralysis from the virus, died. Drs. Jungeblut & Engle concluded that pituitary hormones, not immunity through exposure (the general theory), enable most adults to resist infantile paralysis...
...side of the minority in this crusade for critical integrity stand the dramatic reviewers of the more conservative papers, as well as their colleagues, the book-reviewers. These men generally resist the more rhapsodical advertising and seldom betray their public. From their writings, however, are extracted such fragments as are susceptible of favorable interpretation out of context: and thus the deceit grows apace...
...China. There was a trifle less chaos, a mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
...little old lady continued to resist all efforts to "take care" of her. She puffed nervously on cigars, told a granddaughter how her money had been taken away, asked her to "get me a nice Irish policeman. He must be a Catholic and a Republican...