Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Years ago I debated this problem with Count Tolstoy," he began. "I maintained to Tolstoy that one must be allowed to defend himself. He said: 'No. We should not resist evil, men. If another Genghis Khan should come along and we defend ourselves, we would only anger him and more of us would become his victims. If we did not resist, he would kill a few, but soon desist...
...what does he find when he enters the place of examination? The room is patrolled by monitors whose occupation, when not handing out note books is to glare suspiciously; and this they do for three hours. They have little faith in the student's power to resist temptation. They put him by himself with three or four empty seats between him and his neighbor, as if he were a moral leper. I don't precisely know what happens when the monitor catches someone cheating, but probably the criminal is expelled with indignation; is hailed before a dean; sermonized and expelled...
...cried Ismet finally in ringing tones, "if we can teach the women of this country economy, it will be impossible for the men to resist this heroic influence...