Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Day, 1921, President Harding pardoned a model prisoner, a broken prophet. Around him he saw his Socialist Party disintegrating; within him he felt his strength ebbing. His speeches seemed almost pathetic; his pen had lost its throb. A month ago he went to a sanitarium in Elmhurst, Ill., where he died, aged...
...individual singers, the world is at fault, producing less than it did once, but that he has nearly all the best obtainable. . . . The American artist? Mr. Gatti heaves a mighty sigh. He might quote a few figures, that of his 93 principals 37 are Americans, that the strength of his native wing is three times that of the German, twice that of the Italian, 33 times that of the French. But being Mr. Gatti-Casazza and little given to explanation in English, he will probably throw up his hands, say "Find me an American Caruso!" turn on his heel...
Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
...symptomatic of deeper troubles, higher up in her system of government. The Laborite Doctor Salter brought down the House upon his head when he made the statement that Bacchus had a considerable and enthusiastic following in the House of Commons--recruited for the most part from the Conservatives, whose strength thereby was rather increased than diminished. To make matters even worse, the disturbing Doctor, upon suffering a severe rebuke, seemed not at all penitent and offered to give the names of his erring and indiscreet colleagues...
...mailed fist so forcibly applied in the current coal strike, thought that, although all the members of Parliament were not associated with the Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights of the Members...