Word: withstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied. Most of them are as entertaining to the troupe as the playing itself. Occasional showers provide the most dramatic of these. Although a cautious management always secured an optional indoor hall to which actors and audience could retreat in case of necessity, it was usual to try to withstand the elements as long as possible...
...what unheard of wickedness is the Mayor not accused; and of what manner of perfidy is he not deemed capable. To maintain equanimity it is necessary to develop the hide of a rhinoceros to withstand the daily assaults and at the same time keep one's faith alive in the fundamental goodness of human nature despite manifestations of baseness...
...cancer-ridden mice with large doses of insulin, how of those mice which had been operated on for cancer, 50% showed no return of the malady when they had been treated with insulin, how insulin had checked the swelling of the carcinoma in mice too weak, too miserable, to withstand operation. He advised his colleagues to give insulin to human patients in the largest possible doses when operation for cancer was impossible. His report caused "a profound sensation...
Mice too weak, too miserable to withstand operation...
...football, is entered, despite the handicap of his injury. The chances of the pole-vaulters cannot be prophesied for except Atwater, the entrants are untried. Whatever may be Cornell's threat in the weights, Porter in the shotput and Berglund in the 35-pound weight should be able to withstand the attack of the visitors...