Word: withstood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...CRIMSON did not participate in these discussions, perhaps assuming at the time that no editorial whatsoever was a blessing more in accord with the season than any argument could hope to be. By now it seems that society has withstood the ordeal, and the question of "when" is as dry as last year's wishbone. What about the purpose of thanksgiving...
...Stronger than steel, withstood shell fragments as successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
Decompression at such altitudes is in itself not fatal (monkeys have withstood it at 75,000 feet), provided the victim is returned almost immediately to a lower altitude. But humans black out in about 15 seconds, too little time for a pilot to descend to a tolerable altitude...
...into the walled, moated compound of the old palace, which now houses government offices. Across the moat an Army gasoline dump went up, shooting gasoline barrels a thousand feet into the air to start new fires wherever they landed. The palace wall, which in its three centuries had withstood American bombs as well as earthquakes, toppled into the moat...
...pounds. Born in Siberia, to which her Polish parents had fled to escape the Nazis, Pessel had been harried across Europe with her mother and grandmothers, ended up at war's end in a Berlin refugee camp. Half-starved and bloated with edema, her puny body had withstood pneumonia, whooping cough, heart disease and tuberculosis...