Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguish between the defeat of Japanese arms and Allied victory. The latter must carry with it deliverance of India from a foreign yoke. The spirit of India demands complete freedom from all foreign dominance and would therefore resist the Japanese yoke equally with the British or any other. . . . [British] promises for the future are valueless in the face of a world struggle in which the fortune of all nations and therefore of humanity is involved. Present performance is the peremptory need of the moment if the war is to end in world peace and not be the preparation for another...
...economics for non-fertile soil." He has grown fruit on vegetable vines, vegetables on trees (e.g., beans grafted on willows, tomatoes on a South American fruit tree called "tsfamalda"). For 15 years he has worked toward a perfect wheat: one which would come up year after year without seeding, resist drought and disease, survive killing winters, wind and rain, yield at least 25 bushels an acre...
Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
Normans are French. Before the invasion, people outside of France imagined that there would be an unbridgeable chasm between resist ants and collaborateurs. Nor mandy may not be typical of all France...
...world's No. 1 expert on cereal diseases. On a 40-acre laboratory plot at Minnesota, he cultivates almost every plant disease known to the Midwest. There are thousands upon thousands. Stake's object is to develop tough new varieties of wheat and other cereals that will resist these diseases. But no sooner does he defeat one disease than a brand-new one, almost invariably, breaks out. Thirty-five years of such battling has convinced Stake that, for all of science, the best man can ever hope to do against bugs and plant disease is to hold...