Word: resists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inheritance overboard, and thus emancipated, freed, and untrammeled, set out to claim their share of the world's goods, in which they are quite often very successful. But instead of being welcomed by the world, they are not infrequently regarded as invaders and intruders. Others, quite willing to resist the lure of the great world, are contented to shut themselves up within a voluntary ghetto, to discharge their duties of citizenship in a humble and modest manner, in order to be able to live their own life as Jews. But instead of appreciation for their spirit of devotion and self...
...awaken to the unreality of every evil concept, all sin and disease, and cast it out of his consciousness. God is not on the side of cancer or influenza any more than of autocracy. Even greater than our right to political self-government is our right and ability to resist and overthrow the attempts of evil to rule us boldly and mentally...
...record in athletics. But this, he said, was bound to be merely a temporary condition, and with the reorganization of affairs this year a great come-back is almost inevitable. A very excellent point was next brought out in the statement that a man who meets temptation but can resist it, will, in the long run be the big man. His closing words were: "Andover and Exeter are the mainstays of future Yale...
...often that a mere book-reviewer can put one over on the news desk. But the little Hoover waif just hollered at us as we went by and when the night edrefused her for page one we couldn't resist the temptation to print...
Russia is not satisfied with Bolshevism. So far the opposition has been expressed in spasmodic and disorganized attempts to resist the absolutism and military dictatorship of Lenine and his kind. But they have been feeble efforts, utterly unable to withstand the Red armies. Disorganization in Russia has proved a blessing to Bolshevism...