Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exchequer [Winston Spencer Churchill], since the breakdown of the Conference, has stated specifically: 'Therefore we are unable now-and I hope at all future times-to international embody in a solemn international agreement any words which would bind us to the principle of mathematical parity in naval strength...
...buttress to the banking strength of the nation is the McFadden act, whose principal paragraph is the permission granted to national banks to maintain branches. Last week Comptroller of the Currency J. W. Mclntosh announced that national bank resources equalled $27,213,824,000-the largest amount reported on record. This was due, said Mr. Mclntosh, to the McFadden...
...Jersey stayed strongly Republican in both houses of its Legislature. . . . Democratic Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City again demonstrated his strength when his henchmen elected eleven of the 14 Democrats in the State Assembly. ... In Princeton, B. Frank Bunn, keeper of the University store, was elected mayor over Democratic Orren Jack Turner, town photographer. For the first time in Princeton's history, students of the University were kept from voting by the local election board. Professor Edward A. Stephens of the Hun Preparatory School, just outside the Princeton limits, was arrested for perjury when he swore his legal residence...
...Principals. Albert Bacon Fall, his lungs congested, despaired greatly and wished that his criminal trial might begin afresh. But it could not begin afresh until January. Wrapped in a blue velvet bathrobe, Mr. Fall gathered strength to go home to New Mexico for Christmas. He reiterated his protests of innocence and said: "Unless doctors forbid me to return to Washington in January, I will come. But I must consider my family and, although I am old, perhaps I can remain with them a little longer before going across the Great Divide...
...violently. When x-rays act so, Professor Compton learned, their wave lengths, thousand millionths of an inch long, change. Roughly, the picture is that of a rowdy butting people on a dance floor. Each time he bumps a dancer he loses a little of his energy; later he has strength enough only to jostle them; finally he goes aimlessly away...