Word: strengthe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the possible exception of guard Sam Butler, injured in Saturday's Dartmouth game, the Crimson will be at full physical strength for Holy Cross--if. The if hinges on whether pre-meds Emil Drvarie, Walt Coulson, and Skip Garvey can avoid taking an all-day examination scheduled for Saturday. All three are supposed to show up for the tests, which are run by the medical school entrance boards. The afternoon portion is listed for 2 to 5 p.m., at precisely the time the Crimson linemen will be needed at the Stadium...
Tackle Jon Jenkins, a somewhat more rugged individual, is credited with being the strongest man ever to go to the Hanover school, at least in the history of their peculiar military-type strength test. Jenkins, besides piling up the highest score on record, also piles up opposing ballcarriers with amazing consistency...
...union shop has long been basic to union security. When a labor leader knows that every man who comes to work in the shop must subsequently join the union, he need not fear that management will be constantly undermining the union's strength and thus its bargaining position...
...Ipiutak people, Larsen thinks, were a notable exception. They brought along a rich, if savage, Siberian culture, with roots as far away as the Ural Mountains. Among the remarkable objects found in Ipiutak ruins are chains and swivels cut laboriously out of walrus ivory. They have no strength and are obviously not for use. Larsen believes that the Ipiutaks, pushing farther & farther into Arctic America, eventually lost touch with their sources of metal. But their religion still demanded certain objects, so their artists copied the metal chains and swivels faithfully in ivory, hoping that the gods would not notice...
...Freeman, and consequently the reader too, is impressed by a strength of character, an almost fierce sense of justice and principles of conduct rare in Washington's time or any other: "The foundations of that code were not love and mercy, faith and sacrifice, but honesty and duty, truth and justice, justice exact and inclusive, justice that never for an instant overlooked his own interests...