Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman hockey team opens its season today against Stone School on the Charlesbank rink at 2 o'clock. Although nothing is known concerning the strength of the visiting team, the University first-year men will present a strong lineup which is expected to make an encouraging showing...
...must be exerted. We cannot win victory in the conflict unless every atom of our energy is directed to one end. Mobilizing man power means more than putting armies in the field. It means that in all forges and shops, on all transportation lines, on all farms, the unified strength of every American will be exercised under competent guidance to the achievement of a common purpose. --New York...
...Aeronautical Society maintains an experimental station at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory to test the ideas which originate among University students. At present the experimenters are working on the strength of fabrics used in dirigible balloons, the distortion occasioned by different pressures, and on a non-chattering pressure valve. Ideas or suggestions for experiments are received at Matthews...
...main weakness of the informals was the old fault of not holding their positions, and, in addition, the shooting was rather ragged and inaccurate. A point of offensive strength was the ability of the forwards to form a line quickly and to pass at the right moment. Also, the linemen checked back very effectively. As a result, the opposing line only got started down the ice twice...
...order demanding at every phase the exercise of first-rate engineering skill. Indeed, the whole machinery of offence and defence requires for its development and upkeep a vast amount of scientific knowledge, and success or failure may well fall to one side or the other according to the relative strength or weakness of the expert scientific knowledge of the two great groups of combatants. A few examples taken at random from this field may serve the present purpose. The British Minister of Munitions stat- ed not long ago that the war would be won by ammonium nitrate. What he meant...