Word: resistive
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...then again, in your review of Gdal Staleski's book [TIME, April 9, p 32] you just couldn't resist the temptation to try to slam the Jews. You mention a list of Jewish composers among them Ravel, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, and Bloch. Very fine and good. But you clever editors must have your say. A little note does the trick! So you lightly dismiss the Jewish composers with "But Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, etc., etc., vere Gentiles." Your entire attitude is nothing short of insulting to the intelligence of your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs...
Chained lightning will be the means of studying electricity with the hope of protecting life and property against natural lightning; of building transmission lines, transformers, and other electrical apparatus to resist lightning voltages...
...states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will resist any effort by Congress to usurp their rights in utility regulation...
...other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing that she never had a grain of good in her . . . do you know what I would do?' She saw the apprehension in Emily's face and stopped...
...Starting from his discoveries, doctors are experimenting with malaria to treat tuberculosis. In the Leipzig Zeitschrift fur Tuberkulose, O. Weselko writes that the treatment is lasting. The body is made able to resist the tuberculosis germs. But in the London Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, M. Freiman writes that in districts where malaria is prevalent, patients apparently free from tuberculosis, often after they had contracted malaria, suddenly showed acute signs of tuberculosis. On the other hand, consumptives with malaria grew worse and often died...