Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cult is still established. Student meetings, held in college dormitories at regular intervals, are presided over by recognized leaders. Within only the last few days, while the founder of the new cult has been paying a brief visit to the University, the organization has received a test of its strength...
...Harvard hockey team reduced in strength by illness will face a relatively unknown Crescent Athletic Club secret of Brooklyn, New York on the New Boston Garden ice at 8.15 tonight. Neither O. P. Jackson '29 or H. H. Newell '29, who have thus far divided the goal guarding duties, will be on hand and the responsibility will be shifted to W. L. Elkins '29 who has not appeared since the opening games of this season...
...five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute periods in reminding the statesman that he must curb his temper, eschew his favorite fiery oratory, conserve his strength...
...Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi and his balance-of-power faction are now heart and soul for the Prime Minister. Furthermore moneyed Baron Tanaka has persuaded 29 of the Minseito opposition Deputies to bolt their party under Takejiro Tokonami and set themselves up as soi-disant independents. This reduces the effective strength of the Minseito opposition to 185, making certain supremacy for the Prime Minister...
After preliminary experiments it was found that the hour from nine to ten o'clock in the evening was on the whole best suited for determining the strength of the radio signals each night. The broadcasting station, WBBM of Chicago, maintained reliable consistency in power which it transmitted and communicated with the Astronomical Laboratory concerning any departures from normal conditions. The intensity of the signal strength measured is that of the carrier wave which is not apparently affected by the modulations of the program broadcasted...