Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago it was reduced to a mass of ruins; today it is a collection of barracks, tents and temporary structures ; tomorrow it must be a massive building of reënforced concrete, able to withstand fire and earthquake, to minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted, and, above all, able to testify to the fact that Christianity is a religion of service and has no limitations of nation or race. With the destroyed churches and educational institutions. rebuilt in Tokyo, and St. Luke's working in coöperation, we shall be playing no small...
...watts it burns. Four long strips of heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum of the big bulb, which closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute sister bulb was the one used recently by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, distinguished Philadelphia surgeon, to illuminate...
...production design, also the work of Peters. He clothed the 18 scenes in a wardrobe distinctively bizarre, which he accomplished with a judicious economy superior only to his unfailing taste. Taking it all in all, Maeterlinck was primarily at fault. The fragile beauty of his strange imagining could not withstand the windy weather of actual production on the stage...
...rather romantic statements regarding the pliability of human and animal nature as deduced from his experiments. His general position is: "Our descendants will learn more quickly than we did what we know well; will execute more easily what we have accomplished with great effort; and will be able to withstand what has injured us almost to the point of death." Specifically...
...varied ways-by injecting a virus from the growths, by painting rats with irritating substances, and by nematodes (microscopic worms), tape worms, other parasites. In short, Dr. Smith's theory is that at least some cancer is caused by the irritation of parasites acting upon organs unable to withstand it on account of inherited or acquired weakness. Physiologically injurious living as to eating, drinking, chewing, smoking, may prepare a suitable soil that easily succumbs to the parasitic inciting cause. This may be a long-continued process, not confined to old age, but merely making itself apparent then. Heredity alone...