Word: withstands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unholy hour of five fifteen yesterday morning, the State Department wrote finis to a China experiment devoted to the noble ideal that men would rather talk than shoot out their differences. It speaks highly of General Marshall that he was able to withstand as much disappointment and betrayal as he did and still keep on working for peace. When he left Shanghai with no agreement in sight it was almost a certainty that the withdrawal of the peace teams was in sight. The surprise is not that the Marines are coming home, but that they are coming home so soon...
...Princeton squeaker last Saturday, when they outfought about 300 Nassau followers in a battle for the goalposts. The Princeton Freshmen had been instructed the preceding night to defend the sacred posts with their very lives in the event of a Crimson victory, but the brothers, were unable to withstand a determined Harvard line...
...Honolulu, the Army put up for sale 72,000 pounds of bologna, 109 pairs of spurs, 28 saddles, 115,000 antichap lipsticks, 1,000 suits of ladies' long underwear treated to withstand mustard...
...report outlined the uselessness of all direct and indirect defenses against atom bombs, but added a comforting note: "War with this weapon will not be completely unendurable in a country adequately prepared and strong enough to withstand the first onslaught. The length of the war would certainly be increased by adequate dispersion of great industrial areas and the construction of subterranean factories. . . . We can expect war to continue until . . . the will to resist is finally broken...
...type of pile the critical size at which a lump of enriched uranium begins to cook in a nonexplosive chain reaction is 1.5 kilograms (about 3⅓ Ibs.). Theoretically, a pile might heat up to the temperature of the sun (over 6,000°), but no known container can withstand more than 1,500°. The physicists discovered that the simplest way to throttle down a pile was to thrust into it a cadmium bar, which stops neutrons cold...