Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From past records, however, Harvard should have this season at least three sets of capable wingmen. It is in balance, however, rather than individual brilliancy, that the strength of the Crimson end squad appears to lie. Only two members, J. L. Coombs, Occ., and B. H. Strong '28 are letter men, and Coombs has not made his appearance in the role of a University regular since the Yale game in 1923, when he started as a Sophomore at left end on the Stadium turf. Strong's is the only name in the last of this year's ends which appeared...
Dikran Kuyumjian ("Michael Arlen"), novelist, was reported ill, despondent, trying to gather strength in Switzerland for an operation, his second within two years, which was "expected to diminish his nervous vitality...
...born and educated, naturalized in the U. S., an obscure worker in the awkward robes of the Cowley Fathers among the poor of Boston, later (under Bishop Phillips Brooks) an Episcopal rector who was made a missionary bishop and sent to the Philippines because of his earnest simplicity, rugged strength and adaptability among people of other races, it was Bishop Brent who confirmed General Pershing in the Philippines and subsequently became Chaplain-in-Chief...
Western women found a stranger in their midst. Polite to her, they did everything they could to undermine her position. They played on her every trick that strength and skill devise. Over the golf course of the Lake Geneva (Wis.) Country Club, the stranger matched them trick for trick. She was Mrs. Harry Pressler of Los Angeles, playing and winning her first tournament for the Western Women's Golf Championship...
...Great Powers demanded for themselves permanence in the League Council, it was not in order to impose their will on little peoples, but to place their strength at the service of common decisions. When France abandons this conception she is unfaithful to her ideals and traditions as well as to her interests. She is condemning herself to lose her place as leader in Europe...