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Word: strength (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Breath of Summer | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

This only Crimson varsity entry in the meet is this year's cross country captain, John Cogan, who will run in the two-mile event. British strength in the long distances is not known. the combined Harvard-Yale team is partly due to the fact that the hammer, discus, and javelin will not be thrown in the meet. These three events have been Harvard's strongest this year. It is not known yet whether a mile relay will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoring System Will Favor British in Track Meet | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...M.R.P. strength has been declining; a deal with the Gaullists might prove to be M.R.P.'s only means of surviving the next elections (to be held within two years). Bidault, who served in De Gaulle's cabinet and has high personal regard for him, was known to be less opposed to such a deal than other M.R.P. leaders, including Teitgen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fleeting Hope? | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...give up my bad temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices . . . the very foundation of my strength and vigour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...semi-circular stone benches, similar to those which supplemented the Dudley Gate, will flank the sundial and bear the inscriptions of the original benches. These read, "One of thy founders him New England know who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state his strength and years with care that after comers in them might have share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Begins on Memorial Near Lamont | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

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