Word: withstood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hankow-Canton Railway 70 miles south of the capital. The main Japanese force, supported by the navy, threatened heavily fortified Tienchiachen, in the narrow gorges of the Yangtze River 100 miles below Hankow. At week's end Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's best troops withstood a second heavy Japanese assault at this point. The capture of Tienchiachen would almost certainly cause Hankow's fall in short order...
...would pay them 25? less. Kanotex Refining is an obscure factor in the industry; without the present psychological state of crude oil producers, Mr. Boggs's ultimatum would have attracted no attention. But oil is the only important U. S. business which in the last year has withstood Depression, and producers felt it was too good to last. More important still-despite increasing demand, proration figures have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum Institute in April stated that 2,600,000 barrels a day (except for California, which has no proration laws) would be about right. The States east...
...when Mr. Blum's Socialist henchmen brought out a crowd of 10,000, few of whom, correspondents reported, looked like Frenchmen, most seeming to be Eastern European unemployed. This mob whirled toward the Senate, tearing up iron grillwork on the boulevards to use as clubs, but were stoutly withstood by police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles, "Down with the Senate! Hang these old men!" cried the mobsters and fell to chanting the Internationale. "Down with the dotards! Hang Caillaux! Caillaux to the gallows...
...Georgia's remote northern hills, and to thousands of dry and pious Georgia fundamentalists last week came discouraging news from Atlanta. A measure to repeal Georgia's 23-year-old State prohibition law, which has been openly violated in urban localities since Repeal but has stubbornly withstood two referendums initiated by Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited to two quarts a day per person) and liquor manufacture...
...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...