Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assert that Truman's policy breaks down the U. N. is incorrect, Wriston replied. Rather, he maintained, it gives the international organization a chance to grow and gain more strength. "The time limit of 15 months on American action to Greece and Turkey will give the U. N. time to wax stronger. We give it added momentum," he asserted...
Otherwise, the same Varsity lineup which showed pitching strength, defensive ability, but somewhat effete hitting power in its first three contests, will take the field today. The infield, which has made only one error in three games, consists of Billy Fitz at first, Captain Jack Forte at second, Saul Mariaschin at shortstop, and John Coppinger at third...
...real difficulty of religion for modern man. It is not to be taken up with reservations, lightly. The fact that most men do so take it is the reason it may fail them. For although religion is practical and can still do much good in the world, its strength at any period is measured by the number and quality of its mystics, of its "God-intoxicated...
...daily struggle of his spirit bred a daily exaltation, and common things assumed great meaning. Water, when he bathed his face or drank at the well, was extraordinary for its wetness and coldness; food, partaken of at his own board or in the field; the strength of his white mare that bore him up so loyally; the darkness of the night sky that brought him rest-these things were all extraordinary for themselves and, more so, for the greatness of the creation behind them. So that he was attended in those autumn days, not only by the demons...
...little boundaries of so-called health and decay, strength and weakness, as well as all alleged fixity or changelessness of things-how he had brooded on all that, at that time. And how all thought of fixity in anything had disappeared as a ridiculous illusion intended, maybe, by something to fool man into the belief that his world here, his physical and mental state, was real and enduring, a greater thing than anything else in the universe, when so plainly it was not. But not himself. A mere shadow-an illusion -nothing. ... It had all come to him, the evanescence...