Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only to those he knows share his love of antiquity. For Mr. Mueller, tall and soft-spaken, is no newcomer to bibliopoly. In Vienna, where he lived until 1939, he worked in his father's university bookstore. After eight months spent at Buchenwald, he came to American on the strength of an American passport, and worked for a while as a butler in New York. Arriving in Cambridge, he persuaded Tutin, the bookseller, to buy the failing Schoenhof's and has run it ever since as a part-owner...
...pronouncements" as these: "a great institution founded on the cornerstone of service and courtesy"; "the challenge of a new era demands the ultimate in achievement." Said she: "One bank says 'You are invited to use the name of this bank on your checks. It is a symbol of strength and security.' What a lot of malarkey. If a check's good, it's good. Everybody will honor...
...them make such a mistake. . . . We need to make it perfectly clear that we are committed to defend certain vital areas, that we will fight if they are invaded, and that we have the strength to fight successfully. If we draw that sort of line, we can be quite certain that the Red Army will not cross...
Jack Barnaby's advance information that the Williams tennis team would be "very nearly equal to ours in strength" proved overly optimistic on the basis of Saturday's match, as the Crimson went down to the season's fifth straight defeat, 6 to 3, salvaging only one singles match...
Miss Cushner is unwilling to give any definite forecast about the strength of next year's Vassar football team. "If the deans are willing, we'll have a well-developed squad that should be able to hold off the strongest attacks," is her only prediction...