Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highlighted the financial plight of even the great regional museums, which cannot match the buying power of federally funded institutions. Said Howard W. Johnson, president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: "This isn't parochialism or regional pride. The issue is, how do we retain the cultural strength of our cities...
...last fall, the gays organized to help elect Marion Barry as mayor. A staunch gay rights advocate, Barry has expressed gratitude for their support. Says Tom Bostow, president of Washington's Gertrude Stein Democratic Club: "The single person who elected Barry was Anita Bryant." The gays also mobilized enough strength at the polls in California last November to turn down, 3 to 2, a proposition that would have permitted school boards to fire any openly homosexual teachers...
After leaving Cambridge at 5 a.m., the bleary-eyed Radcliffe squads arrived at Dartmouth without the sleep and mental preparation they need for a tough race. Both the varsity and J.V. boats spent last week on strength work that they hope will pay off next weekend against Yale. No one anticipated a need to get set for Dartmouth...
...Jimmy Myers would say, when you got the horses, you got the horses. "We didn't have the depth or the strength to go with the likes of Princeton, Brown and Cornell," women's track coach Pappy Hunt said yesterday, after his team's fourth-place finish at the All-Ivies, Saturday at Brown...
...thought that Yale would have much more strength than they did," head coach R. S. "Pappy" Hunt said after the meet. "They beat a strong Brown team last week by five points," he said in appraising the mysterious performance of his opponents...