Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Stalin dictates at Moscow, having overthrown Leon Trotzky and many another. Recently M. Trotzky and other anti-Stalinites, notably MM. Zinoviev and Kamenev, have been rumored to be gathering strength for a war of propaganda against the man of steel.* Last week M. Stalin, no office holder but the despotic "boss" of the Communist party, rapped out three orders. Leon Trotzky and his malcontents were commanded to cease their opposition to the dictator's will. For an hour they temporized, then found courage for battle ebbing. Next day the supremacy of Joseph Stalin stood once more unquestioned...
...annual game with the Crimson Freshmen is regarded by the Worcester eleven as something of an objective game, and every effort has been made to muster the full strength of the squad for the encounter. The line-up that will face the Freshmen is a strong one, with several stars, of whom Hewitt at quarterback, former Lawrence High School boy who is preparing to enter the University, is the most brilliant. Against the Brown Freshmen he scored on a 45-yard drop kick...
...Miller '27, the heaviest back on the field, he showed in the Holy Cross game that he has added finesse to his strength, speed, weight, and courage...
...field stood a pair of spindling spruces. Ranger Irons began to .climb. The bear climbed after him. Long claws reached out, divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost at the top of the tree. The claws reached out again; his leg was bleeding, his courage broken, his strength gone. Death, clumsy and terrible, with red eyes, groped after him along a veering limb. And then came the thud of galloping hoofs below, a cavalcade, with rescue in every tossing neck, waited for Dave Irons below. While the frightened bear scrambled off to her cubs, Ranger Irons started...
...broke into huge fragments, the Americas, Eurasia-Africa. Australasia, and Antarctica. The last, Antarctica, seems not to have moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid, with haltings and renewed sliding, toward the Pacific. The great mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength as the continental fragments slipped down over the earth's body. During the process of folding along the border of the invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were pouring out through the tension-cracks of the continental interior. The fissures, through which the lavas rose, became sealed with frozen basalt...A new, heavy...