Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length about Jackson), the other may be called the Jackson of comic myth, whose adventures were minutely set forth by Mr. Jack Downing and his brother humorists. The Harvard degree, as bestowed upon this latter personage, offered a situation which the chroniclers of the grotesque could in no wise resist...
...that document had the added dignity to it of bearing the signature of the governor of the state of Texas, the seal of Texas, also the seal of the Senate. I could not resist...
...something new, something that had a place of its own in the scheme of things, there might be some excuse for the existence of so much ponderous organization. But as it stands today this energy-consuming phenomenon is just a copy of the one outside. If the student cannot resist the lure of the committee, the rotary and the ballot box he might at least wait until he gets to a place where his progress will mean something. CornellSun...
...picture. Finally they "played it down" on inside pages. The picture, never intended for Hearstmen's eyes, had been sent by Lindberghs & Morrows to intimates as a New Year's greeting. Great-Grandma Cutter's cousin, Mrs. Charlotte Reeve Conover of Dayton, Ohio, could not resist giving hers to the Dayton News-upon which picturemen pounced...
...proposal Senator Ashurst had declared: "The peninsula is a vermiform appendix to Mexico. It is the heel, the Achilles heel, to the United States. The Mexican Republic is both unwilling and unable to police the domain and is unable to resist aggressions from or settlements by Oriental powers...