Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania (less picturesque and well known than Marshal Pulsudski) was the first prime minister of his country (1918), and has represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively...
...Boston University five have the distinct advantage of having already played two games. The exact strength of the University quintet will not be known until they are formally seen in action...
...plan, as outlined by President Hopkins, and apparently accepted, in theory at least, by Michigan, is to have two university teams of about equal strength, the one playing the home games the other the games scheduled for enemy territory...
Security is the scheme advocated by the lesser nations who are in more constant danger of war, but it relies upon the strength of the powerful, who certainly will not act unless it happens to agree with their immediate as well as their ultimate interests to do so. Nor is any security pact to which America is not a party really capable of enforcement...
...paring down of the University hockey squad to its fighting strength, and the announcement of a contest between graduate sextets of Harvard and Dartmouth on Thursday constituted the news that filtered out of the Crimson ice camp yesterday...