Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Siegumfeldt Jacobsen and a vibration table by means of which he simulates the shocks and temblors of earthquakes. Miniature buildings on the table rock, collapse or remain upright as actual buildings might behave under natural conditions. Skyscrapers of more than 30 or 40 stories are generally flexible enough to resist earthquake oscillations. Buildings of four to 30 stories run greatest risk because they tend to vibrate in unison with quakes. Last week's earthquake proved Professor Jacobsen's thesis. In Long Beach & vicinity mainly low structures were wracked and razed. Skyscrapers stood unharmed...
...rumbled his deep bass laugh at the point-blank query whether he might not even yet sell out to Japan. "I will resist the Japanese." said he when he had had his laugh "with all the troops nd resources at my command...
Thus last week in Nanking, China's capital, spoke Foreign Minister Lo Wenkan with appropriate frenzy, pardonable hyperbole. Nearly all the 400 million Chinese felt as strongly as Mr. Lo that China must resist Japan's new offensive to seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...
...bloodthirsty bayonet work on straw men. Author Wells's easy triumphs are a little embarrassing to watch. But his slapstick satire can draw a grin: "He was pleased and excited to find that he could weep with passion. He had never wept with passion before. Could she resist that? He implored in a great voice, a kind of mooing roar. 'Give yourself to me. Margaret. Give yourself now. Give yourself and save me from what...
...certain Lieut.-Colonel Atilio Cataneo presently confessed himself leader of the plot, but President Justo could not resist the temptation to blame everything on his political rivals, the Radical Personalista Party...