Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorite to retain his title. Anyone who has seen the determined clear-striding little Harvard captain at his best will readily concede that the may lower the association record. The present mark of 9 minutes, 22 2-5 seconds, set by Ivan Dresser of Cornell in 1919, already has withstood six assaults...
...despotism ever erected has permanently withstood the shifting gales of fortune. One wonders whether the present structures will be peacefully razed by their liberally minded builders or tumble sanguineously, undermined by armed rebellion. If Mussolini, de Rivera, and Pangalos approach in wisdom Plato's ideal rulers, they will retire gracefully when they have set their respective lands in order. Byron sings of Miltiades...
Busy Londoners scurrying home from "the city" were arrested last week by an appeal from newsboy throats which was not to be withstood: "Get your Evening News! New story by Hans Christian Andersen! Paper...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...
Monarch with their barking 6-inch guns; but the condemned ship's 11-inch steel gun protection withstood bravely the clattering shells...