Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship...
Candidly Dr. Ditmars remarks: &#quot;Abstract theorizing is not in my line. I deal with the animals themselves. . . . But I can't resist observing that much of the man-monkey relationship is based on feeble arguments. ... I think that it is the inconsistency in monkey psychology and ability that undermines his position as man's ancestor more than anything else...
...cynical old Bishop laughed at Adam, sent him to an appropriate, hard-drinking, earthy parish. Adam did well, but never in an earthly way: he couldn't get out of debt because he couldn't resist helping people. Still he was so comfortable he thought the world was progressing. Then the War came. His two sons were killed, his favorite daughter died of exposure. His parishioners turned against him, suspected him of stealing the church treasure, of burning the rectory to cover his tracks. His wife grew old, went nearly demented from grief and hard times. Gradually, painfully...
Strachey's amused detachment never falters, but he can rarely resist making a point, especially against the late great Victorian Age. In this summation his virtues and defects all appear: "A most peculiar age [the Victorian]; an age of barbarism and prudery, of nobility and cheapness, of satisfaction and desperation; an age in which everything was discovered and nothing known; an age in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid; when gas-jets struggled feebly through the circumambient fog, when the hour of dinner might be at any moment between two and six, when...
Thanks very much for the wonderful boost you gave us (TIME, May 25, June 8). I am enclosing a copy of our paper [Chitina, Alaska Weekly Herald]. I cannot resist thanking you again along with this paper, although I sent you a letter by last boat...