Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shocks were the first ones of distinct strength recorded in the seismograph in recent weeks. The needle began to record its jagged lines about 12.30 o'clock, and for two hours its agitation continued. Three main wave trains shook the shaft that penetrates the earth many feet below the recording instruments. The first one was written-out a few minutes after 1 o'clock, and the others followed during the next ten minutes. At a late hour yesterday afternoon the disturbances had not been definitely placed...
...which is theoretically sufficient to destroy him--a man of experience, wit, city manners and sophistication, who typifies the challenge of a restless urban civilization to the long-continued domination of a thousand Main Streets: this is the man who now bids for the nomination of a party whose strength, ironically enough, lies chiefly in the old aristocracy of the Solid South...
Coach Kershaw, in charge of the Crimson soccer forces for his second year, will have six veterans of this year's team as a nucleus about which to form his team for next fall. The addition of several players from the powerful Freshmen aggregation of this year brings added strength to the University squad...
Alluding scornfully to the present puny strength of Austria, Il Duce rapped: "We are not anxious about our northern frontier. Hannibal is not at our gates. Neither is Monsignor Seipel...
...landing fields. W. R. Turnbull, Canadian, announced last week that he had invented a successful variable pitch propeller, by the use of which planes can rise more quickly, can even back up. The angle of the blades on his propeller may be changed while in motion, thereby affecting the strength of his motor like a shift of gears on an automobile. The Canadian Air Force tested with optimism...