Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian officials on that line. You kicked them off last July. We have demanded ever since that they be reinstated. Our rights date back to Tsarist times, when Russian money built the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria. We are ready to strike again. We have proved that you cannot resist us, even...
Miss Mary Plummer of Boston, pretty as a peach blossom, could not resist her fascinatingly brown-bearded French and riding master. They were married at City Hall, Manhattan, though she had wept for a religious wedding. At No. 212 West Twelfth Street (the dingy brick building still stands) she bore him the present Mme. Jacquemaire. Then he took her back to Paris?on the dread eve of 1870?where she bore him Michael and "Le Petit Pierre," now a businessman in Lima, Peru, where he raged last week at the slowness with which bulletins trickled in about his father...
...arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form an opposing argument which they cannot too strongly resist...
...average American, like the average Canadian and Australian, lives in the past, and he cannot resist a feeling, which in truth he rather cherishes as a grievance, that English men of that type, however much they may try to conceal it, regard themselves as members of an exclusive caste, socially superior to any one they can meet in any of the newer countries...
Despite these optimistic predictions, some of the debenture and stockholders who had not agreed to the proposed re-organization hinted that the main trouble lay not in the agricultural conditions but the management. Through a spokesman they said, "We propose to organize a committee to resist the receivership on the ground that such receivership would represent a retention of control and extension of influence by the same group responsible for this magnificent ruin. . . . The receiver proposed (John R. Simpson, president of Cuba Cane, Vice President and Director of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp.) is not qualified...