Word: resistive
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...Hilaire Belloc is pretty sure that steamships and locomotives would be still figments of diseased imaginations if Louis XVI had escaped at Varenne's. Emil Ludwig gives a very interesting description of Germany if the Emperor Frederick had not died of cancer in 1888. Unfortunately he is unable to resist the temptation for cheap dramatic effect to which he so frequently falls a prey even in what one might call his more scholarly commentaries. He allows Kaiser William II to assume the throne August 1, 1914 amidst "peace and prosperity...
...length about Jackson), the other may be called the Jackson of comic myth, whose adventures were minutely set forth by Mr. Jack Downing and his brother humorists. The Harvard degree, as bestowed upon this latter personage, offered a situation which the chroniclers of the grotesque could in no wise resist...
...that document had the added dignity to it of bearing the signature of the governor of the state of Texas, the seal of Texas, also the seal of the Senate. I could not resist...
...something new, something that had a place of its own in the scheme of things, there might be some excuse for the existence of so much ponderous organization. But as it stands today this energy-consuming phenomenon is just a copy of the one outside. If the student cannot resist the lure of the committee, the rotary and the ballot box he might at least wait until he gets to a place where his progress will mean something. CornellSun...
...picture. Finally they "played it down" on inside pages. The picture, never intended for Hearstmen's eyes, had been sent by Lindberghs & Morrows to intimates as a New Year's greeting. Great-Grandma Cutter's cousin, Mrs. Charlotte Reeve Conover of Dayton, Ohio, could not resist giving hers to the Dayton News-upon which picturemen pounced...