Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparatory school outfit had its chief strength in Thompson who played a stellar game at goal and made a variety of spectacular and seemingly impossible stops...
...just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength, and no irony was lost in the trial for rape and the money-won acquittal...
...Kellogg treaty, Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, in charge of the Cruiser Bill, opened the session with a Cruiser Bill speech. He argued that the proposed 15 cruisers do not constitute a "big Navy," but represent only the minimum additions required to keep the Navy at a respectable defensive strength. Immediately following this speech, the Senate took up the Kellogg treaty, indefinitely postponing debate on the cruisers...
...second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving...
Meanwhile the American Army had grown until it represented more than half the strength of the whole terrestrial organization. Its properties were appraised at a reproduction value of $37,000,000. It could make use of 150,000 tambourines, to give one each to all its lads and lassies...