Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a great deal of loose talk and writing upon the intelligence of the negro, twisted from the truth by race prejudice and passion. Had the scene of this debate been laid further south anything from a race riot down might well have taken place, such, is the strength of tradition, no matter how illogical or untested it may be Oxford, by its meeting with Lincoln, has broken down one more of the barriers erected around the myth about the necessary inferiority of the negro mind...
...doings of little countries have a peculiar interest for the people of the United States. Secure in our giant strength and steadiness of government, we stand like a Titan watching with amusement the troubles of the minor states, forgetting that for four long years in the '60s the rest of the world watched daily for news of the destruction of this young republic...
...Arena on January 7, while the Brown contest will take place in Providence on Tuesday January 18. Notre Dame will play Yale in New York on January 8, and the results of this match and that of the previous day will offer an early opportunity to compare the relative strength of the Blue and Crimson skaters...
...number of courses required for a degree with distinction, like that which went into effect this year, is a move in the right direction. The tutorial system is taking positive form with surprising rapidity. It is surely not too much to hope that new and greater additions to its strength will be made in other departments also before the end of the present scholastic year...
...sine quanon of the season. This is the performance of Handel's Messiah. Without an afternoon or evening spent under the majestically beautiful power of this great work Christmas would seem to be lacking in some particular. Under its spell everything else is forgotten and from the mighty strength of the "Hallelujah Chorus," and the clear burning faith of the aria. "I knew that my Redeemer liveth," from the entire work as a whole there comes over into the listener something of the peace the fresh purpose, the idealism which is Christmas. What is music that it can distill...