Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Believing his delegate-strength was even greater than impartial experts said, anticipating a crucial victory in California's primary on May Day, Candidate Smith inspected his campaign headquarters at the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan, and approved the selection of George R. Van Namee as his pre-convention manager. Mr. Van Namee, a slightly bald, wholly businesslike,-most amiable Cornell graduate (Class of 1901), used to be Governor Smith's secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again...
...empty of stores, water, fuel and ammunition, just comes within the Treaty limitation of 10,000 tons. But in the building of the Suffolk thousands of parts have been made of aluminum, where use of a heavier metal would have been standard practice. Judged from the standpoint of fighting strength, the 10,000-ton Suffolk probably outrates an ordinary 13,000 tonner
Xray. The same rays were found in Bolivia and in California, showing that they come from a source so vast & remote that they strike the whole surface of the earth impartially. Theoretical calculations by Millikan out of Einstein, on the strength of the rays that would be shot forth if hydrogen atoms collided to form oxygen or nitrogen, perfectly checked the actual measurements made...
...because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being bumped by, or bumping, other atoms, cannot save their strength to go into a highly active state give very different lines when photographed...
...oarsmen face the M. I. T. first year crew in the curtain raiser for the Harvard-Tech regatta at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is the premiere for Coach H. H. Haines' men and will suffice to test the strength of what is reputed to be a very powerful Freshman combination...