Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Washington observers saw in the Vinson appointment a Roosevelt gesture to the House less likely to backfire than the appointment of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, courtly Chairman Henry Fountain Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee could not resist a sly dig as his committee received the appointments for confirmation. Indicating to newshawks that he might have to hold on them the extensive public hearings which Nominee Black did not get, Senator Ashurst put his old tongue in his cheek, observed: "You may say that the Judiciary Committee will proceed with exasperating slowness as has been...
Adult women resist infection by gonococci because their sex membranes are relatively impervious. Children have very little such protection. Germs work into their tissues where germicidal douches cannot reach. In spite of treatment the disease may last as long as five years. The cure for vaginitis is only four years old. In January 1934, at Yale. Dr. Robert Lewis took a hint from Dr. Edgar Allen, who found that female sex hormones toughened the vaginal mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks...
...criticised the legal profession for its unwillingness to accept the progressive principles of administrative law. Our present legal set-up cannot resist for long, he feels, the multitude of new claims made upon it by our complex civilization...
...Those who disapprove of Germany's political regime," said Lord Samuel in his peroration, "have to resist the temptation to take a negative view of all the claims advanced by that regime...
...Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons in the energy band between seven billion and 17 billion volts. These high energy electrons were found to conform...