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...needed to secure an airship to a mast, hundreds are required to take an airship in or out of a hangar; also that an airship can stay indefinitely at the mast, be refuelled and regassed there, have all but major repairs made when thus anchored in the open air, withstand all winds short of a hurricane...
...hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
Said Commissioner Haynes: "I ask your help . . . in a great campaign of preaching . . . a program of promptly assuming the responsibilities of citizenship . . . meeting nullification propaganda. . . . If mobilized . . . into great forces interested in law enforcement and law observance, nothing can withstand...
...defeat of Harvard was almost the only bright spot in Yale's season last year but this spring a more successful outcome is predicated. Syracuse, Cornell and Princeton games lead up to the Harvard encounter in Boston on May 24 and the Yale team will do well to withstand the strain of such a succession of hard games...
...months ago it was reduced to a mass of ruins; today it is a collection of barracks, tents and temporary structures ; tomorrow it must be a massive building of reënforced concrete, able to withstand fire and earthquake, to minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted, and, above all, able to testify to the fact that Christianity is a religion of service and has no limitations of nation or race. With the destroyed churches and educational institutions. rebuilt in Tokyo, and St. Luke's working in coöperation, we shall be playing no small...