Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange sport to most Americans, but to some aficionados it is a supreme art. Other art forms are merely reflections of life; the corrida de torros (festival of bulls) is the realistic struggle of life and death with unfeigned violence and power. Man and mind fight the brute strength of the bull with skill and artistry...
...huts [sheds], which were in a filthy condition and overcrowded . . . Elli said that 18 of the prisoners with her died in one day . . . The women were classified according to their capacity to work . . . They were put in four groups . . . Those in the fourth group, called O.K. (ohne Kraft-without strength), were unfit for anything except cleaning and other chores in the camp...
...version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions that was his strength and weakness; it made the Dickens novels, says Author Pearson, seem like "a blazing volcano of genius almost entirely surrounded by a morass of imbecility...
Playing with full strength for the first time in over a week, Harvard was clearly superior in every match and lost but two sets all afternoon...
...pick the man that can do this best, and once chosen, how do you train him? The job of finding eight men who together will combine the greatest strength with the greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...