Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come you cut your hand, Hot Tamale?" whereupon Blackstone had begun to shake from head to foot. The other informer gave the police a pistol, said it had come from Blackstone's landlord. Before daybreak Blackstone had been arrested with Fred Smith, white ex-convict. All day they withstood questioning, finally broke down and confessed...
Natural Chilean nitrates are bitterly contested in the world market by synthetic nitrates, chiefly manufactured in Germany. In Lucerne, Switzerland last week, Chilean Cosach proudly withstood demands it termed excessive for money in connection with the organization of a proposed new cartel, refused to keep prices on natural nitrates higher than those on synthetic (see p. 33). Chilean Government financial difficulties started when the nitrate interests succeeded in getting the export tax on nitrates abolished...
...guns boomed out a salute last week. Paul Revere supplied her original sheathing and brass work. Today there remains only 15% of the vessel that fought the Barbary pirates, defeated the Guerrière in 1812, earned the name of "Old Ironsides" from the way her planking withstood shot. When the Navy prepared to junk her in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his "Ay, Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down," caused her to be commissioned a second time in 1833. Her third reconstruction came...
...into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of ice. Spittle will freeze before reaching the ground. . . . Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops it, sparks fly as if from flint. . . . Even rum would freeze in my traveling flask. Only pure alcohol withstood the cold...
England-Australia. For nearly three years the record of Pilot Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler-15½ days from England to Australia-withstood all assaults. Last week Australians went wild with joy when their own idol, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, landed his Avro Avian Southern Cross Jr. at Port Darwin ten days after leaving Heston Airdrome, north of London. Apart from the glamour of Kingsford-Smith's mission-going home after his trans-Atlantic flight to marry Mary Powell of Melbourne-the race was full of human interest. Of three others who essayed the route within the month...