Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enactment of the Glass-Steagall bill. By substituting U. S. bonds for commercial paper as Federal Reserve currency coverage, this measure freed excess gold behind paper money, helped the Reserve to resist foreign raids on the dollar. It also opened the way for the Reserve to buy U. S. bonds wholesale, pump credit back to member banks...
...pick a lock, where or for whom he did not know. Observers guessed it might be a rusted lock on a treasure chest hauled from the sunken Egypt by the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (TIME, June 20). Never having met the lock that could resist him, Master Courtney, who first learned his trade at the door of his mother's jam closet, expected no trouble. Last week, back in Manhattan, he told of his lock-picking jaunt...
...none too pleased to take her bastard into their home. But out of loyalty to his mother Odin keeps the home fires burning cool. His Juviking father, Otte Vetran, returned from America, has settled in the neighborhood. He makes a quiet living at cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father. "It was queer to be walking like this all alone...
...King Albert did everything except his duty to Belgium during the War. What madness to resist the Germans! To think that Belgium might have profited?as Holland did, as America did! If only our King Leopold [died 1909] had been alive in 1914 everything would have been different. "Leopold would have claimed our rights as a neutral just as loudly as Albert claimed them. Then when the Germans still came on Leopold would have let them pass without the folly of spilling our young men's blood. Our factories would have been busier than ever. Our honor would have been...
...Charles ("Buddy") Cowart, 19, refused to tell the Press how he dangled for two hours on a rope beneath the wind-tossed U. S. S. Akron over Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...