Word: strengthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
...Federal Reserve Board, said Mr. Warburg (in the course of his annual report to International Acceptance Stockholders) has lost control of the money situation by failure to take decisive action before inflation reached its present strength...
...glory that was won by the victorious college has been in several instances distorted into an assumption of definite educational supremacy. The justification of this claim would hardly rest upon the results of such a test of strength. For no sense of educational value could be more false than that which would judge the relative merits of two colleges or their corresponding departments upon the comparative standards attained by ten representatives in a single field, however general. Such judgement might further lead to an unbalanced emphasis upon the importance of examinations as criteria of educational achievement...
Retired. Major Thomas F. Lynch, 77, of Manhattan, Spanish War veteran, oldest civilian employe of the U. S. Army, since 1889 custodian of the Army Building in Manhattan; after 47 years of service. Major Lynch outdid John L. Sullivan in feats of strength...
...center ice and taking its sting before it was near the goal. It is such achievements as this, in the face of dubious odds, that bring home forcibly the fact that the University sport teams are guided by men who know their business. The second trial of hockey strength between the teams will be watched more eagerly because of the proof of the first...