Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even more brilliantly the next two seasons against more dangerous opposition. Especially in 1926 did the Green make its best effort to avenge its decisive defeat of the previous year at both the hands of Harvard and Cornell. All indications pointed to a dangerous Hanoverian offering. Coach Hillman's strength this year lay in his versatile sophomores. Several stars of his 1925 Freshman team now came to the fore and eliminated his veterans. Moody, a rangy second year Green high-jumper, had cleared six feet and three inches to replace Herring, who had captured this event...
...Navy" talk. Testifying last fortnight before the House Committee, he said: "I am frank to say I hope that disarmament progress will make it possible to cut off part of the building program in 1931. . . . If in 1931 we go into that conference* with an authorized program of the strength we are entitled to, I hope we will find a basis of agreement with other nations and still have a possibility of equality...
...transcendent is this achievement that the Chamber of Deputies fell meekly into line, last week, although for the past three weeks both the Radicals and Socialists have carried on a furious heckling debate to demonstrate that their political strength has not waned, on the eve of the Parliamentary elections this Spring...
Auditors took this to mean that General Groener will continue the settled Reichswehr policy of developing new and super swift offense units to compensate in part for the puny strength...
Amelita Galli-Curci (coloratura soprano) gave her name for advertising purposes to Swami Yogananda of India and Los Angeles, Calif., a man who looks like a plump woman. She was quoted in copy in Manhattan theatre programs as saying: "YOGODA gives Health, Strength, Power to Accomplish, Peace and Poise." Among other things, YOGODA claims to teach people "to Recharge their body, mind and soul Batteries from Inner Cosmic Energy ... to meditate, to know Divine truths." Last week Swami Yogananda was ordered by the police to leave Miami, Fla., where he had been extending his practices...