Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objective of the Senate constitutes an attempt to dictate to an administrative agency upon the appointment of subordinates and an attempted invasion of the authority of the Executive. These, as President, I am bound to resist...
That had been Mr. Wilson's observation also, and he once remarked, "I have spent the greater part of my life doing what is called teaching, but many of the pupils of most of our universities systematically resist being taught. If I had anything that I thought was worth their hearing I should love to address a body of people hungry to learn. I have never done it yet. It would be a very novel experience...
...This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires to glow hot (by its catalytic property), resist electricity. The battery current is thus shunted back through the nickel wires, to register on the graduated scale of the dial exactly what percentage of fuel is not being burned. Dr. Hutchison estimated the U. S. might save $1,000,000,000 worth of fuel per year (at a market...
...cross between poet, pirate and posturer is Gabriele d'Annunzio, snatcher of Fiume for Italy, first in the romantic hearts of millions of his countrymen. Last week, having penned such a last will and testament as only he could write, he could not resist the temptation to let Italians read it now. After briefly, dramatically bequeathing The Place of Victory (his estate on Lake Garda) to the nation, the will rambles...
...leadership, prepared to sacrifice our lives for the redemption of the Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...