Word: strengthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Like "The Play's the Thing", it has a cast of six or seven men and one woman, in open defiance of all the best books of dramatic technique--by ladies who have written pageants for the Cope Valley Community Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what a lot of nasty feminist propaganda this is. Give Cecil Dixon the eyes wistful...
...Comstockian. But as far as the fact goes, the optimistic critics must be reminded that three all important factors in the upholding of the old code were conscientious acceptance of conventional morality, religious scruple, and fear rising out of ignorance. And today--those bulwarks have lost their strength...
...hall in Walsenburg is at the foot of Main Street. There they gathered, there they got excited, there they talked bigger than their strength. They started marching up Main Street. The State Police fell in beside. At Seventh and Main, the policemen diverted the march from passing the court house, where sat the Commission. Out of the "Wobbly" ranks stepped a ragged man and shot a trooper in the groin...
...apparatus is the result of a careful study of the signal strength of radio reception in connection with sun-spot observations. The study revealed that there was a definite correlation between the appearance of spots on the sun's surface and the conditions of radio reception. The new machine, by means of a device that is similar to a weather graph, can measure the amount of change that takes place in the signal strength of radios during the sun-spot cycle...
...terrific electrical charges. These bodies are set in rotation during a storm, forming a veritable dynamo. The powerful magnetic field thus developed extends out into space and often disturbs radio, cable, and telegraph lines of the earth. Within recent years it has become possible to actually measure the field strength of these solar storms by means of a careful analysis of the spectrum of the sun spots...