Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought up his noble Resolution only when it was hammered into him that his blanket cash-&-carry law, with which he proposes to replace...
...barely tipped the scales at a hundred and seventy pounds, if that, while this year he weighs over a hundred and eighty pounds. The catch is that he gained the weight comparatively suddenly after an attack of grippe last winter. The result was that he lost a lot of power and had a tough time getting back into form. However, right now he has about the smoothest form on the second sight and is one of the strongest men in the boat...
Turning to Navy we see a crew that successfully understroked the Princeton varsity by as many as four beats and still took them by three quarters of a length. With their usual long power stroke they had little trouble with Princeton. However, too much credit cannot be given to the Middies, because the Princeton crew has neither the material nor the ability to be placed among the leading contenders for the rewing title of the East. In trials they have been taken by the Tiger freshmen...
...only solution of the Western problem lies in the more efficient creation of power by machinery," claimed William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia Gazette, in the last of three talks in the New Lecture Hall last night...
Lester Stevens' "Center of the Beach" is one of the most complete embodiments of decisive power and convincing color in the exhibit. His water, mountains, and buildings are handled in a manner which boldly but without exaggeration emphasizes the essential characteristics of each. Despite Stevens' clarity and firm solidity, his paintings seem very natural, in fact so natural that it is almost possible for you to feel your way into them. Nevertheless, he avoids the dangerous pitfall of travel-poster sensationalism which has in many cases been the Waterloo of other painters who have worked from the game point...