Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manager Jack Denton still has high hopes for the team. The varsity has gained strength since last season, and Denton expects them to beat Virginia Tech and Virginia, and perhaps Georgetown. As for North Carolina, they'll be "pretty mean...
...here to connect Schlesinger in any way with the American Legion than there is to deny the Shapley group the right to hold a meeting. Schlesinger did not deny that right; but his hasty action and his choice of associates made it look that way. His arguments must lose strength proportionately...
...been a shoddy performance all around. The Administration had promised to fight for civil rights for Negroes, but Harry Truman had gone fishing in Florida, and his Senate majority leader, Scott Lucas, had put on an inept show, bellicose when tact was required, weak and confused when strength was called for. The Republicans had nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming to a vote. The filibustering Southern Democrats had hollered over the holy rights of a minority in the Senate while contriving...
Under the increasing strictures of state control-and in a closely regulated industry-he has also managed to keep a maximum of freedom because, as one politico commented: Trippe has not wasted his time and strength fighting regulation; he has learned to make it work for him. He did well under a Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime...
Aside from actual playing experience the squad will pick up during vacation. Callahan doesn't rate the Bermuda week very highly. His main interest is building up the Rugby Club to its prewar strength, when it won the Eastern Rugby Union trophy cup three years...