Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments of time. The iron is driven, at last, into his soul. Broken in body, robbed of his faith in his own supremacy, he falls, like an oak that tried to withstand the spring floods long after its sap had dried up. Playwright Murray has created a character, brilliantly interpreted by Una O'Connor; a wizened Cassandra, whose unheeded prophecies point, from the beginning, to the Nemesis...
...Haven, Conn., November 14.--Breaking a six-year dearth of victories over the Blue, the Harvard Freshman eleven overcame the Yale first-year outfit here yesterday by a 19 to 7 score. The Blue line was unable to withstand the knife-like thrusts of the Harvard backs, who launchd a tornadic attack that netted three touchdowns in the first half...
...years ago that Mr. Sperry turned his ubiquitous attention to that toy of mathematicians-;a flywheel with a hoop around it, spinning in a frame on light bearings-of which the internal equilibrium is sufficient to withstand outer forces that seek to upset its balance. In the arc-light field, it is 47 years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them...
...done!" In other words, the general verdict was that when an irresistible force met an immovable object, the object stopped being immovable, and that was doubtless a part of Mr. Woodruff's philosophy when he engineered the inception of the smashing drive that no line seemed able to withstand...
...centre with his head down for all he is worth. Meanwhile the right end, fullback, left halfback, left end and quarterback fall in behind him and push. Thus a wedge of six men is hurled at the opposing line like a flying meat axe. No human frame could withstand the momentum of this onslaught. It can be readily seen that under the old rule of five yards in three downs no ordinary defense methods could keep a team with this attack from marching down the field for touchdowns almost at will...