Word: resistive
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...opponents by its superior team-play, the St. Paul's School hockey team defeated the Freshman seven at Concord, N. H., yesterday by the score of 4 to 2. The game was clean and hard-fought throughout, but the greater individual brilliancy of the 1921 players could not resist the combination work of the school team...
...defensive power of machine guns. Reports tell of a generally steady progress, but held up at times by concrete "nests" of automatic rifles. A number of such guns, echeloned in depth, form an essential part of the defense. If, then, such pits can be made strong enough to resist all but the heaviest shells, and can be well camoufied, the resisting power would be very formidable. That the Germans have not made them powerful enough to hold back the English is evident, but they did cause considerable trouble. A strengthening of such-points of resistance would very likely make...
...under international law to consider it a hostile act and the beginning of formal war on the part of the United States. The immunity from armed attack except on due notice, which the United States justly claims for our merchantmen, holds only if such vessels do not attack nor resist nor flee...
...course, if the CRIMSON really believes in the essential nobility of the liquor traffic, and its salutary influence upon the government, there is something heroic in its attitude. Let it resist as long as it can in the midst of a dry Cambridge and a rapidly-drying nation, and gallantly wave its beer-bottle to the bitter end. But if it admits that the traffic is harmful, I cannot see how it is justified in filling its coffers from any such sources. I wish it would explain its position. WALTER M. HORTON...
...must regard the situation from a practical, matter-of-fact point of view, and must resist our desire to forsake routine for novelty. He concluded with saying, "Take no risk of distracting and distressing your fathers, mothers, and friends without sufficient reason. Remember that the risk you take is not only for yourself, but for those who are near you. Stick to your work here until your work becomes war, and then answer the call of your country and go and fight with everything that is within...