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...game, the athletes wear feather weight shoes--speed shoes--made to fit like kid gloves. Not all of the players undergo this loss of poundage, since the tackles do not wear the speed shoes and some of the other individual players find that the lightweight shoes do not withstand the punishment that they give their feet...
Many records, some of which still withstand all onslaught, were set up at that time by such swimmers as Al Schwartz of Northwestern, and Kojac, the Rutgers...
General Hugh Johnson plumes himself on his capacity to withstand public criticism. Last week he was inviting the country to step up and find fault with his NRAdministration. But the series in the Post, against which he has long nursed a private grudge, was more than he could stand. Last week in a radio address he flung out this handful of barbed words...
...Feverish preparations are now going on in Russia to withstand the Japanese plans. Russia has double-tracked its Siberian railroads; it has sent colonies of men into Siberia. But Russia's great difficulty is that it is too far away from the seat of trouble, Northern Manchuria...
...only a proper knowledge of the field, but considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory work, he must have the training of a soap-box orator to withstand professorial heckling in the face of amused hoi poloi...