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Word: resists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Don't Degenerate! | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...passionate climax of his address Marshal Feng boomed: "China has 400,000,000 people, yet we cannot resist the bullying of a nation with only a few scores of millions. Japanese Imperialism is comparable only to the ways of wolves and tigers. What with their gunboat policy and their heavy artillery sometimes we are treated worse than dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Don't Degenerate! | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Editors of the CRIMSON: I am one of a great number of alumni who deplore the destruction of the goal posts after a victory in the modern way and I should like to suggest that it is quite possible to build goal posts, which will resist the enthusiasts after a game. A grillage of channel beams with steel gussets riveted to the up fights would serve. With engineering in the place of good manners we could have the old march under the goal posts which used to finish the games so handsomely. Kenneth Conant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grillage and Gussets | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

...Freshmen Resist Yale Attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN DEFEAT STRONG ELI TEAM | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...faithless must beware the consuming fury of Advertisa. Pagans of the world must unite, for single-handed they cannot resist the proselytizing forces of the priests. Unless they get Advertisa Advertisa will get them. With her terrifying and deadly juxtaposition of jarring colors and incongruous commodities, in a stupefying rush of unrelated station signs, bill boards, highway signs, and white ways, she will wreak fatigue, death, destruction upon their heathen intellects. They will be dizzy forever. The infiedels must seize arms and battle for their last strongholds, the mountains, the forests, the wilds, against Moloch, the chimera, the eighth plague...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TENTH MUSE | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

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