Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time President has ever had to face before. Not a day has passed that he has not devoted all of his waking hours in an attempt to solve those problems. He has never lost patience and never lost courage, and never lost faith in the American people. He has withstood the onslaughts of every radical who had some expensive idea for curing the world's ills. Both negatively and positively he has shown astounding courage in resisting dangerous experiments and in proposing constructive measures of assistance. While his critics have been voluble with abuse, they have never offered a constructive...
...Roycrofters. Except for the printing and binding shops Roycrofters are not so multitalented as they once were. The Turkish Corner passed on with Queen Victoria; modern decorations do not include many brass or bronze ornaments. But the presses, turning out mostly reprints of the Founder's works, have withstood a fair test of time. Best seller: A Message to Garcia. This "literary trifle," as he called it, Hubbard wrote one night after dinner when Bert II had remarked that Rowan was the real hero of the Spanish-American war.† The Sage of East Aurora made this incident...
...platoon of police. bravely withstood a brick-&-umbrella charge from rioters behind the British Museum last week...
...large school of economic thought scoffed instalment buying in 1928, blamed it for the catastrophe of 1929, foretold its speedy annihilation. But no annihilation has come about; instalment selling has withstood Depression well. Although purchases of all goods, especially those which may be bought "on time," have dropped, and although the price per unit is less, the National Association of Credit Companies reports that the industry has shown surprising stability except for radio sets and mechanical refrigerators, both of which, however, have made steady gains. Four hundred and two automobile finance companies did a $547,000,000 business...
Lindberghs. The legend of Lindbergh infallibility has withstood minor shocks but never a shock like the one it endured last week. After crossing the Bering Sea without mishap and effecting a comparatively happy landing at Petropavlovsk, near the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Lindbergh troubles began. They continued for four days while headlines describing the oriental odyssey in occidental newspapers grew wide with astonishment...