Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Jaakko Mikkola is concerned with Dartmouth's show of strength, because his men ran second to the Engineers in the Pentagonal meet two weeks ago; but he is counting on a bigger and better showing from his five top runners this week...
...implications of communist objectives be overlooked by liberals, no matter how greatly progressive organizations may need strength for the tasks ahead. For not only do communist members seek to control those bodies which they infest, but they are unable to give true allegiance to the goals of democratic progressivism...
...advantage for the dictatorships. But it ultimately leads to war. The concessions, which the democracies make, pile up fears and resentments among even a reluctant population until the moment is reached when even democracies are forced to make a stand. Meanwhile the same concessions increase the boldness and the strength of the dictatorship until a point is reached when it thinks it can wage a successful war. The Russians are the more liable to overestimate their strength at some point because they underestimate the residual health of the democratic-capitalist world in much the same fashion as Hitler did, being...
Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who was once Rodin's secretary, described what his boss was after: "Rodin assumed that if caught quickly, the simple movements of the model . . . contain the strength of an expression which is not surmised, because one is not wont to follow it with intense and constant attention. By not permitting his eyes to leave the model for an instant, and by allowing his quick and trained hand free play over the drawing paper, Rodin seized an enormous number of never before observed and hitherto unrecorded gestures of which the radiating force of expression was immense...
Evidently the Crimson squad figured the game was in the bag after that early scoring spree, but the Purple and Gold came storming back and won the contest largely on the strength of their superb condition. While the Crimson just managed to drag through the last quarter, the Jeffmen finished the game still charging hard...