Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this price of silence by testing the constitutionality of the so-called Walsh Law under which the confiscation was made. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, the law's author, and one of the originators of the whole oil investigation, declared he was sure his law would withstand Supreme Court scrutiny; announced his intention of introducing to Congress another law, to compel just such reluctant witnesses as Mr. Blackmer* to testify willy-nilly- when they can be caught before they leave...
...fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum, for how can one little, Tiger, however fierce he may be, make a menngerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a very strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws...
...Flex-O-Glass are not transparent, but the data presented show their comparative value for use in solariums and for animal husbandry in cases in which transparency is not essential. Both of these substances are less expensive than ordinary window glass, but the Flex-O-Glass does not withstand the onslaught of the weather as well as does the Cel-O-Glass. The waxy coating of the Flex-O-Glass has a tendency to soften in hot sunshine, and dust may then adhere which is not easily washed off. This material is primarily intended, however, for use in animal husbandry...
...Their one regret is that they cannot greet you in this building. Yet there is no building that could withstand the shock of their greeting. And so they are now gathering outside, amid surroundings that have become inseparable parts of their lives, to give you a fitting reception in their own barbaric...
This stirring history is republished now as a matter of public amusement; yet grave doubts may be held whether all readers can yet withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...