Word: resister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instant results: The whole list of stocks on the Berlin Borse went off an average of six points, shares of the Reichsbank itself tumbled 15 points. Strongest industrials could not resist the blow. Salz-detfurth Potash lost 13 points, and the gigantic firm of Siemens & Halske (comparable in Germany to U. S. General Electric) was knocked for a loss of twelve. If the Director of the Reichsbank did not sell short before he handed his resignation to President Paul von Hindenburg, he resisted titanic temptation, proved himself indeed an "Iron...
...mission chambers a venerable, white-haired invalid, with wrinkled, bespectacled eyes and a broad, benignant face, lay on what seemed likely to be his death bed. He was Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, "The Padre of the Rains," and it seemed that his 80 years could not much longer resist the attacks of an ailing heart...
...Years ago I debated this problem with Count Tolstoy," he began. "I maintained to Tolstoy that one must be allowed to defend himself. He said: 'No. We should not resist evil, men. If another Genghis Khan should come along and we defend ourselves, we would only anger him and more of us would become his victims. If we did not resist, he would kill a few, but soon desist...
...what does he find when he enters the place of examination? The room is patrolled by monitors whose occupation, when not handing out note books is to glare suspiciously; and this they do for three hours. They have little faith in the student's power to resist temptation. They put him by himself with three or four empty seats between him and his neighbor, as if he were a moral leper. I don't precisely know what happens when the monitor catches someone cheating, but probably the criminal is expelled with indignation; is hailed before a dean; sermonized and expelled...
...cried Ismet finally in ringing tones, "if we can teach the women of this country economy, it will be impossible for the men to resist this heroic influence...