Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball team will leave by boat for New York, from where it will entrain for Princeton to face the Tiger nine in a return engagement tomorrow. Since the debacle of a week ago Coach Mitchell has shaken things up a bit with the hope of gaining increased hitting strength. Lord, star first baseman of the Freshmen a year ago, has displaced the veteran at first. The Sophomore lacks experience, but he is a natural hitter, and about on a par in fielding with his rival. BATTING INCREASES WHILE FIELDING DROPS...
Most track enthusiasts know that shot putting is the art of overcoming gravity To do this one must combine speed, strength and weight, co-ordinating all three to gain the best possible form. When a shot putter learns his art there should be no strain. And yet I consider the shot put to be the most difficult of all field events to master thoroughly. In the hammer and discuss it is possible to gather momentum in the movements inside the seven foot circle. In the shot put the competitor operates from a dead start and must...
...alluring richness of detail the theory of the burden of civilization. It is suggested that among civilized peoples each succeeding generation elaborates the social environment, increases the number of demands made upon the members of society, and complicates generally the problem of living and working. With the biological strength of the race at a standstill or on the decline while the burdens it must carry are on the increase, the time is likely to come in the life history of any civilized people when the structural overloading will become so great that the civilization in question will collapse, either...
...this is not practicable, how can the value of civil aircraft be computed in estimating the air strength of any country...
...Present Strength. The nations have at their disposal the following indisputable subjects of disarmament...