Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom been a difficulty of the colleges that their students think too much, and the capacity of the average undergraduate to withstand information is one of his most engaging, if also his most exasperating, characteristics. But it is not quite enough to score him off on that account as a "bonehead". It is partly at least the failure of a traditional form of education to impress him with its value. It seems almost a fault in the colleges that they are so organized as to impress upon the freshman that scholastic achievement doesn't get him anywhere...
...needed to secure an airship to a mast, hundreds are required to take an airship in or out of a hangar; also that an airship can stay indefinitely at the mast, be refuelled and regassed there, have all but major repairs made when thus anchored in the open air, withstand all winds short of a hurricane...
...hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
Said Commissioner Haynes: "I ask your help . . . in a great campaign of preaching . . . a program of promptly assuming the responsibilities of citizenship . . . meeting nullification propaganda. . . . If mobilized . . . into great forces interested in law enforcement and law observance, nothing can withstand...
...defeat of Harvard was almost the only bright spot in Yale's season last year but this spring a more successful outcome is predicated. Syracuse, Cornell and Princeton games lead up to the Harvard encounter in Boston on May 24 and the Yale team will do well to withstand the strain of such a succession of hard games...