Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady next to us grew so hysterical at "The Irish in Us" that her husband had to take her home. Since our constitutions withstood not only the strain of her predicament but also the antics of Jimmy Cagney, however, we think you may attend a performance without danger to your health...
Many economists scoffed at installment buying in 1928, blamed it for the market crash of 1929, predicted that it would disappear from U. S. business life. Yet installment selling has withstood Depression better than most other economic devices of the Turbulent Twenties. Particularly has it held its own in the automobile business, as the earnings of two of the biggest automobile finance companies dramatically testify. While nearly every motor company sank into the red manufacturing cars. Commercial Investment Trust and Commercial Credit continued to make handsome profits from financing the sale of the same cars...
...Peace Strike withstood the ravages of yesterday's festooned hecklers. To the Continuations Committee and its subsidiary organizations must go credit for the persistence in impressing their aim on an unwilling Harvard. The spontaneity which marked the first spring party last year had to fail unless some distinct and catching new feature was introduced. It is quite evident that organized annual humor cannot last if it is pitted against an aim which basically has some logic...
Beautiful friendships which had withstood Diego Rivera, the Dartmouth Library, and Radio Center, were broken as the debaters took sides on a question which may--before all of its ramifications have been explored--assume international importance...
...good clean fun on board ship in "The Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert...