Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus it seems that two long standing British policies against the military strength of France have been abandoned. It seems then that the British government now feels secure against that strength. It would appear that the entente of Britain and France has been so increased that "in event of war" cooperation between them is practically certain. This secret agreement between the French and British governments under the pressure of public opinion is being published bit by bit, just as much information once secret is now known about the outbreak of the Great War and about treaties between belligerents. Although...
Except for the second period, where Worcester staged a desperate rally, the University staged a desperate rally, the University team had things its own way. The inexperienced forward line showed unusual strength and aggressiveness, and with more practice should develop a greater skill in passing the ball. At present the team makes up in individual strength what little coordination it lacks...
...perfectly clear that the author's intention is to lay bare without any compromise the real significance of the story of Samson and Deliah. Not the moral side, however. He gives us the bald sexual narrative in all its conspicuousness. The sapping of the powerful muscular strength of the giant because of his infatuation for philistine women is hardly pleasant when the veil of old narrative in directness is stripped aside. Especially when...
...country has a right to ask them before the election whether, if they hold it, they will put the Socialists in office. The Labor [Socialist] Party still is divided, undisciplined and weakly led, so that the strength of the extremists [communists] within their ranks makes them dangerous...
...thing that polo demands most of all, of course, is strength. Women can handle their ponies as well but they cannot ever hope to get the distance that even mediocre male players expect. In golf, 50 yards on a drive can be cancelled by five feet on the green; not so in polo. Yet, there have been great women players. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, who must now be nearly 65, taught Winston Guest, as well as her own sons, the game; it would be difficult to say on how many summer mornings this superb lady has been seen on her field...