Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again raised her tuition fee. Already many colleges have fixed the cost of education at $400.00 or more, and the announcement from the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences merely signifies that the trend of the times has proved too strong to be longer withstood. The depreciation of the dollar since the beginning of the century was the cause of the increase of tuition a few years ago, but neither the class nor the number of applicants was then affected, and there is no reason to think that they will suffer from the present change...
...feat often accomplished by University endurance stars in recent years, is of a meet in 1875 in which President Lowell, then an undergraduate was proclaimed victor in both the mile and half mile. The record of 5 minutes 2 1-2 seconds which he set in the former race withstood the assaults of the Crimson trackmen until a cinder track greatly improved the conditions of running at Harvard...
...time of Oscar Wilde. it is a proof of the universality of enjoyment for clever dialogue and good music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce in the latter part of the nineteenth century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have changed since the "Pinafore" craze of the seventies. But sweet little Buttercup remains to charm her auditors, who may have learned to like many new and bizarre entertainments but who still retain a very great love...
...have proved to my own satisfaction that an airship can last through very severe storms and can survive in weather that would keep airplanes from taking flight at all. The Norge experienced the climatic changes of four different zones and withstood them without any difficulty...
Once Lewis had run down the clue that had been eluding him, he quickly saw the application of this military defense to his own problem. In both cases, a powerful blow was directed at the centre of the line, which could hardly be withstood by ordinary methods of defense. To substitute ends and tackles of a football team on the defensive for Napoleon's cavalry was a natural step, and the centre could be reenforced by the backs, just as the French centre was strengthened by reserves...