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...blue suit, reporters knotted around with questions. Had he made any special preparations for his stunt? None at all, except to get seven hours' sleep the night before instead of his usual four or five. "I always keep in good shape," he explained. How was he able to resist the call to the men's room? Good control, he said, vowing that he had had no auxiliary devices strapped to his leg. What was the purpose of his marathon talk? He was one of "a band of liberals" who wanted to "focus public attention" on the tidelands "giveaway...
...long, slim shells from the racks and rows every day until ice forms on the river. Then the Oriental barn becomes home for both boats and crew, like a nineteenth century factory--producing "oarsmen." Machines upstairs fashion rowing muscles as the crew-men pull on bars which resist their efforts like water opposing the motion of an oar. The crew is polished down-stairs in the "tank," a ramp outfitted with regulation oars and seats, surrounded by water. Each rower pulls an oar through the moving water, as the coaches correct flaws in technique...
...monster state of St. John's Revelation appeared: the Nazis took over Germany. Dibelius was at first cautious. In Potsdam's Nikolai Church he preached a guarded but firm sermon to Reichstag members, including President von Hindenburg and many of the Nazi Party leaders. "We do not resist authority," he said, "since to do so is anarchy and thus irreligious . . . But as soon as the state demands to be the church, and strives to assume power to rule the souls of men . . . then we are asked by Luther's words to exercise resistance in the name...
...course, if Edwardianism asserts itself as the proper style of masculine dress, there is nothing to do but adopt it. We've readily taken up Chesterfields, so there is little reason for us to resist four or five or six button coats, inverted shoulders, walking sticks, bowlers, and full, flaring capes if they happen to become fashionable...
...Both legal right and moral duty require us to resist the oppressive actions of these committees. No great legal rights have been secured or preserved by submission to tyranny; constitutional rights are never above the level of those who receive their protection. The imprisonment of countless Puritans gave rise to the constitutional right not to be a witness against oneself. Many editors went to prison during the period of the Alien and Sedition's Laws, thereby establishing more firmly the freedom of the press. The abolitionists who stood up to statute, decision and administrative and mob action are responsible...