Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires to glow hot (by its catalytic property), resist electricity. The battery current is thus shunted back through the nickel wires, to register on the graduated scale of the dial exactly what percentage of fuel is not being burned. Dr. Hutchison estimated the U. S. might save $1,000,000,000 worth of fuel per year (at a market...
...cross between poet, pirate and posturer is Gabriele d'Annunzio, snatcher of Fiume for Italy, first in the romantic hearts of millions of his countrymen. Last week, having penned such a last will and testament as only he could write, he could not resist the temptation to let Italians read it now. After briefly, dramatically bequeathing The Place of Victory (his estate on Lake Garda) to the nation, the will rambles...
...leadership, prepared to sacrifice our lives for the redemption of the Holy Land. In those days we learned to look up to you for your integrity and high sense of honor. In this hour of crisis your soldiers appeal to you to prevail upon your fellow British citizens to resist this latest attempt to impugn British honor and to discredit the British sense of fair play and justice...
...cult of Wodan and the "Old Gods" of Germany supported by the General Erich Ludendorff, once an active Hitlerite, is of course a detestable heresy against God Almighty which every Catholic must resist. True, the Hitlerites of today are not Wodanites, but they are tainted with a suspicion of Wodanism in the ecclesiastic mind...
...right for a man to resist being made into a machine. . . . If a machine be regarded as labor saving, instead of as labor serving, it may become a menace. The fault is not, however, in the machine but in the managers...