Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the manpower or dollars to fight Communism singlehanded wherever it is found. We must use our strength for the attack upon Moscow...
...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...
...Wood will oppose M.I.T.'s best swimmer, Pitler, in the 220-yard back-stroke, and Chuck Hoolzer and Larry Ward will swim against Tech's Polletier in the 200-yard breaststroke, the two events in which M.I.T. claims its greatest strength...
Because the relative strength of the two teams has gone in opposite directions since the last time they met (Wesleyan has lost its ace and Captain Frank Bowles; Harvard has gained power in the lightweight brackets while retaining its experienced heavyweights), the match is not expected to be any more searching a test of the Crimson's mat prowess than Saturday's party...
...tiny populations of Scandinavia can never hope to oppose aggression with physical force," wrote Novelist Evelyn Waugh after a visit to Scandinavia last year. "If they are to survive it must be through spiritual strength, and there alas . . . they are woefully enfeebled . . . They are secularized from infancy by the omnicompetent state, and as a result are unique in history in having no religion...