Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Genius. "Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again. Few who lead significant lives are hopelessly sane. A genius is a deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...
...public is simply substituting the words 'military agreement' for 'military treaty' and continues to believe that Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia have arranged to combine their military strength in case of need...
International the final was, but unequivocal. Though Mrs. Watson took the first game, led 3-2 at the end of the fifth, she finally succumbed to fresher youth, greater strength. The score: 6-4, 6-2. Double was Miss Wills' victory, for it gave her permanent possession...
Straws show which way the wind blows. But when a strawstack is an indicator it tells tales of a wind that is blowing near hurricane strength. Last week 37 banks in Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana,?37 banks with over $350.000,000 of assets?were the strawstack at which the Northwest cocked an admiring eye. For the 3 7 banks were united in a great bank chain, headed by the First National banks of St. Paul and Minneapolis...
...impressive win. Presently he told correspondents in the smooth English he learned at Harvard that he had withdrawn his resignation as Finance Minister with the understanding that: 1) China's largest-standing-army-in-the-world (250,000) will be "quickly" reduced to one-half its present strength; 2) President Chiang and the War Office will for the first time conduct military operations on a stated budget; 3) the Finance Minister will in future be consulted and deferred to by the War Office in fixing the sums allotted in the military budget...