Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement stunned Republicans in Connecticut and Washington. New Dealing Chester Bowles would almost certainly replace Baldwin with a Democrat, thus increasing Democratic strength in the Senate to 55, a majority of seven; at the same time the Republicans would lose their best vote getter in the state. When-Baldwin showed up at a dinner attended by bigwigs of both parties in Hartford last week, he was loudly booed by Republicans...
...wallop and the excitement that comes from wrestling with a real problem, rather than fencing with a cooked-up plot. The acting, even against some unconvincing jungle sets, is persuasively lifelike; and even when it fumbles the statement of its message, the film retains a sort of rough-&-ready strength...
Contrary to tradition established in recent years, the real strength in this year's freshman squad lies in the running events rather than in the weights. The varsity weight men, this year, as in most recent years, have been leading the Crimson to all its track victories. 'Fifty-two weightmen, on the other hand, while not displaying outright weakness, have been forced to take a secondary position behind a host of really strong runners...
...various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming that "united strength clearly stated to the enemy ... through arms aid... is an antidote to fear...
...further category of five teams came under the heading of "dark horses," and these teams depended primarily on a good schedule and the strength of freshmen coming up. These squads are Yale, BU, Holy Cross, Columbia, and . . . Harvard...