Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking before the College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Buck stressed his concern for future freedom "to experiment and to excel," while Harris dismembered the economics purportedly supporting Commission assurances that private schools will successfully withstand vast Federal financing of public institutions...
...message. He warned his fellow priests to be skeptical if they heard that he had resigned, or had "confessed." Even if they were shown his authentic signature on a confession, they should consider his signing as the result of "human frailty," i.e., the result of his inability to withstand Communist torture...
...week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
There were exceptions, of course, but he charged the textile industry with profiteering on poor quality goods. His bill of particulars: polo shirts and quilts with "nonwashable sewing threads"; printed dress fabrics that "not only cannot withstand perspiration . . . but cannot even withstand water without staining"; women's woolens that fade in sunlight; taffeta and moire finishes "that disappear when wet"; "socalled washable fabrics [that] shrink 6, 7 and 8%"; raincoats that shrink in the rain...
...started (as '47), it had bought too much bottom-drawer stuff, because it could not afford the prices other magazines paid for top-drawer pieces. The magazine had improved notably after Editor Richard E. Lauterbach, former LIFE staffer, took over seven months ago-but not enough to withstand the spring newsstand slump. It was running only a little above its advertising guarantee...