Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friendly ones whose lengthy calls we hardly dare resist...
...fallen; the incoming ministry promises to last but little longer. It seems as if the question of Home Rule must now be settled. The Irish are resolute and under able leaders. The English are in a quandary. Plucky Greece is asserting some of her old time independence. She will resist the encroachments of Turkey, and has politely informed the powers of Europe that she will accept no arbitration from them. What will be the outcome? At home we are encountered by a crisis of a different nature. A derangement of our currency is threatened. The anti-silver men predict...
...well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle...
...shall then be able to consider some of the causes which produce disease, and the means by which we may prevent the action of some of these causes. The constitution a person inherits will play a large part in determining what degree of health he shall have, for men resist the influences to which they are exposed with very different results. Another subject of the very greatest importance to health is food. Exercise for persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want...
...Resist Time's changing powers...