Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party obligations, his privilege. The effect upon his friends might be to fill them with a delight more keenly felt after anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right up to the moment the balloting begins and "potential" strength is demonstrated, the powers-that-are in the G. O. P. would remain poised upon the Rock of Plymouth, able to "draft" Calvin Coolidge again, if need be, or to dictate his successor to the deadlocked boomers of Hoover and Lowden...
Lord Cave. Lying invalid in his Somersetshire home of Burnham-on-Sea, George Viscount Cave, 72, felt his strength definitely impaired, last week, and executed in good time his resignation as Lord High Chancellor. The incumbent of this office is the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family. He keeps the King's conscience, sits on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, surmounts the pyramid of English judges, partakes of membership in the Cabinet, and performs such chores as standing guardian of all infants and lunatics...
...Modern democracies overload their executive leaders with so many responsibilities and duties that they have little strength or freshness of spirit left for a creative leadership of the nation's life...
Consciousness. Issued 27 publications to sell New England to herself and others. An example: "Town, try these on your town (14 questions to test the industrial strength of a community...
...Sosthenes Behn is ancestrally Dutch-French. By birth, he is Danish, having been born at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands, U. S. territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first...