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Word: strength (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here's how all this affects Harvard's chances against Cornell tomorrow. The Crimson, on the strength of its one performance to date, has been praised in the skies by the sportswriters, ranked twelfth in the nation according to the Williamson ratings (a fallacy anyway), and picked by the Associated Press to win. Overconfidence again? Perhaps...

Author: By Pete Taub, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

Only by underwriting the military strength of Europe and by maintaining the vitality of ERP can the real recovery of Europe be assured, Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 told an HLU and Radcliffe SDA audience in Emerson D last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger Asks Continued Aid to Western Europe | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...afternoon, watching brother Vince play, when a Seals' scout, Spike Hennessey, clapped him on the back. How would he like to come inside for a tryout? Joe could think of nothing he wanted more. Five years later, little brother Dom was given his chance too, on the strength of being a DiMaggio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Guy | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...pleasanter prototype. Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a "unicorn" (single horn). The bull with such a horn becomes the leader of the herd. Confident of his strength and position, he can afford to be as gentle as a unicorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Romantic Zoologist | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race but proud of it," he suggests the reserve and strength of a people inured to suffering and unshakable in its self-possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Way Out of the Swamp? | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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