Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted to be shown around the House. The rules forbid any member receiving more than 50 guests at any one time, so Mr. Clarry had to depute 10 of his colleagues to look after 950 of the ladies. Finally, they departed in 30 charabancs. Reginald was reported to have withstood the ordeal "with remarkable fortitude...
...process to cable manufacture, has increased the word-carrying capacity of the New York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...
...Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, 1602-1622, in the days when the Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders of the Faith was given to the world in 1608, when he published his Introduction to the Devout Life...
...Canadians on the contrary relied entirely on a highly developed passing game which completely dazzled the Yankee players. They also withstood the long contest better than their opponents...
...course, no final refutation of Mr. Adams' prophecy that, despite the very apparent spread of democracy in England since 1913, opinion in Oxford, in the words of Mr. Leys, "has never encouraged the narrower kind of professional training". The great English universities seem to have withstood unmoved that pressure which has converted so many of the colleges of America into great department stores of specialized and professional education...