Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achievement to be proud of, Coach McMillin declared upon his arrival home that his team performed every bit as well as he had expected. Defensively, it was pronounced by Ithaca critics to have been on a par with any team seen there in several seasons. Time and again it withstood the crunching drives of Dobie's husky backs...
Till he showed us for our good- Deaf to mirth and blind to scorn- How we might have best withstood Burdens that he has not borne...
...Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still...
...which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes. Tilden, leaping and slipping like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long Will Tilden. Others said: "Nonsense, he will take care of himself when the Davis Cup matches and national championship come along." Some said he was clowning too much, his tournament intensity dissipated by other interests. Others...
Three banks in the Miami neighborhood withstood serious runs during the week: Bank of Hollywood, Bank of Allapattah, Bank of Hialeah...