Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street 15 years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such...
...Thirteenth Chair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Pathé made it as a silent in 1919, Metro as a talkie with Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel...
...theatres in some of which they climbed on the stage and "took over the show." Rightly suspecting that the young gentlemen would want to finish up by stealing the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus, police had it swiftly boarded up and a hollow square of burly Bobbies easily withstood charge after tipsy Oxonian charge. Old Oxonian A. P. Herbert, famed Punch funster and Member of Parliament, attended the fray for hours, ready according to his wisecracks to testify as an M. P. in behalf of any student who might be arrested. Legislator Herbert kept calling to the police...
...archaeology or not. Much of the photography was done from an airplane, giving an excellent panorama of the Orient. Reproductions of the Tower of Babel and of Solomon's stables; the great art and architecture of the Palace of Darias; the hundred-foot-high Arch of Gtesiphon, which has withstood the storms of two thousand years; weapons used at Armageddon long before St. John's famous prophecy--scenes like these more than make up for the inevitable shots of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the pyramids of the Pharaohs, and the ridiculous dances of the expedition's native workmen...
...when, attempting a comeback, Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin flirted publicly with the idea of recall of unpopular judges, actually plumped for re-call of judicial decisions in his Progressive platform. Wrote Felix Frankfurter in 1934: "Certainly neither the Presidency nor the Congress has better withstood the fluctuating winds of popular opinion than the Supreme Court. Despite intermittent popular movements against it, the Court is more securely lodged in the confidence of the people than the other two branches of the Government...