Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual the yardlings will go into a big game without enough practice behind them. However, the Crimson defense will be back at its old strength because Captain Dusty Burke has returned to his regular defense position. Furthermore, since the Belmont Hill game he has managed to remove the rust he accumulated while his collar bone was broken...
Against mutual opponents, both teams have fared the same. Brown has beaten Wesleyan, Dartmouth, and MIT, and has lost to Army, but Harvard's more evenly distributed strength will make it a favorite over the Bruins...
Bill Garrity will probably return to his right wing position on the first line, thereby putting the Crimson back at full strength. Garrity aggravated his broken toe in the Dartmouth game and didn't play at Princeton over the weekend...
...with an angry, 1,000-word manifesto which said, in part: "Governments which claim to guarantee freedom of conscience and religion are in fact denying it ... Officers and members of churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...
...Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...