Word: resistive
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...with the result that he gets tangled up with his opponent too often. He has, however, shown much improvement since the beginning of the season. Pierce, right tackle, is rather light for the place, and is too easily turned aside. He has not learned how to resist force coming at him from an angle, now properly to help out his guard...
...there is present in every soul a serious purpose, we can see further that it must be God's purpose and God's will that we are fulfilling by our labor. Many of us, to be sure, are afraid to admit this close relationship between God and man; we resist his will and try to act independently. Surely we do this in ignorance and blindness; for what more pitiable fate could man have than to be, as it were, an orphan, cut off from all intercourse with...
...author's theory which stands out most plainly is about love. It is that love is of divine essence, that it justifies itself, that we can not and ought not to resist it, that every one has a right to love, and that love has a right to everything. Such a conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman...
...lies beyond. The coloring is of soft grays, pinks and violets, calling for the same restraint on the part of the artist as is shown by Nature herself. Everywhere one sees a combination of great variety with the utmost delicacy and refinement,- an effect which no sensitive imagination could resist...
...could not gain as well by rushing. The line plays were not tried to any great extent, the chief reliance being placed on trick and end plays. Her defense, though twice admirable in holding their opponents for downs within the five-yard line, was not developed to resist the mass plays hurled at the line. On the whole, Harvard's defense, especially in the second half, was a trifle better, though her offense was not so good as it was a year...