Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...
...Cost $36,393,011, upkeep $2,104,185 per year, speed 23 knots, major weapons nine 16-in. guns, armament sufficient to ''withstand the simultaneous explosion of four torpedoes," designer Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson D'Eyncourt who during the War was chairman of the British Admiralty Committee which produced the first tank...
...with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added virtue: all the stresses are uniform...
...aircraft, except by special permission of the Secretary of Commerce. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, said that the rule was aimed specifically at the now popular practice of towing gliders behind airplanes, subjecting them to high-speed stresses which they have not been designed to withstand. Permission will be issued if the glider is structurally sound, if the undertaking will further aviation...
...they were to withstand the stiff competition of the bootlegging industry, a more modern, more effective sales argument had to be found. The solution to the difficult merchandising apparently turned out to lie in intimidation, big and tough talk, and downright bullying. A ready market was created as soon as the winning smile was discarded for hard-boiled scowls and Chicago along. Most effective of all was the brandishing of a neat steel-blue automatic. No direct threats are known to have been made, but insinuations of what had happened to other undergraduates who had crossed the paths of these...