Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reginald Marsh had looked at the people, not the architecture. The bald, bull-necked Yale graduate who says "Well-bred people are no fun to paint," made his beat the Bowery, the burlesque shows, and raucous Coney Island, painted it with a Hogarthian incisiveness and strength...
...Charles Peake, Britain's delegate. Stung, but not exactly hopping, Sir Charles announced that he would reply to Vishinsky the next day. When Sir Charles was ready to speak, Vishinsky cracked that he was happy to note that the British representative "after 72 hours had gathered enough strength to answer...
...Historic Protestantism," he says, "will continue to dominate 'Church Street' just as it has since the birth of American freedom." His early crusade for church unity in Fairfield now seems to him "as unimportant as it was impractical." Protestantism's very multiplicity he now considers its strength. As Doc Reynolds once told him: "Protestantism ought to remind a man of spring . . . New life beginning to move. New cells splitting up . . . Did you ever think of Protestantism like that? . . . The multiplication of cells is one of the manifestations of an inherent vital force...
...little Ben, 137 pounds of spring steel, didn't know his own strength. He slashed through three rounds for a neat 207-nine under par and three ahead of the field. In second place was good-natured Ed ("Porky") Oliver, of Seattle, who is heavy on the hoof but steady on the fairway. In the final round, Porky overtook Hogan and at one point was two strokes ahead; then he dropped back. On the last hole, Hogan needed to sink a 20-ft. putt to salt down the $2,500 first prize. But his putt curled away from...
...Duplessis victory threw this week's Liberal Convention in Ottawa wide open. Many a Liberal still figured that Louis St. Laurent-was the man to swing waning Quebec Liberal strength back into line. Not so Quebecker and onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, who had managed the Liberal campaign in Quebec, and seen St. Laurent in action. At week's end Chubby Power announced that he would be available for the Liberal leadership himself...