Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sober-minded Harvard men will welcome this possibility. The organization could be named, not the "H. M. C. A.", but, more appropriately, the "H. E. L. L." These initials stand for the "Harvard Emasculated Language League". The very title of the movement would insure its success, for who could resist raising H. E. L. L. funds...
...only natural that Congress should have balked somewhat at passing any such business-like measure. It was equally natural that officials of an executive department should resist any check on their money-spending privileges, any order forcing them to show their accounts to a comptroller or to submit to his investigation of their demands for appropriations. Hence it is understandable that the first comptroller of the budget needed to be a fighting man with no tender feelings on the subject. President Harding evidently bore this in mind when he appointed "Hell and Maria" Dawes...
...Must Resist Evils of Civilization...
...proclamation fits better,--a "Sentinel for Liberty". All through his life Adams kept his alertness and his fearless regard for duty as he saw it. As an undergraduate at Harvard, his thesis for a degree was a strong defense or the proposition that "it is lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." There is no reason to believe that Adams ever swerved from this conviction. But he was no mere firebrand. When the question of the Constitution hung in the balance in Massachusetts it was Adams who, unsatisfied as he was with the document...
...usual diet. At the end of the month it was found that the former group were more alert mentally, more active and efficient physically, and possessed more endurance in every way than the others. The one drawback was that these men had no surplus, no energy stored up to resist colds or other diseases...