Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana's Republican convention in Indianapolis, Bill Jenner had his showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...
Twilight Blindness. The angry Yuan demanded a listing of the exact measures to be taken. Cried a member from Central China: "Nearly all Manchuria and North China have been lost . . . Yet the ever-weakening strength of government troops and their low morale have not even been discussed in Dr. Wong's report." When the Yuan adjourned for the day, 132 legislators were still clamoring to speak...
...long-established rat community, says Dr. Calhoun, there is very little fighting. Every rat, having tested its strength against its neighbors, knows its social position and stays in it. Newcomers must battle for places in this set order. But since (like human immigrants) they do not know the new country, they are at a disadvantage. When danger threatens, they do not know where to hide. The newcomers do not know the best sources of food, and therefore lose weight and strength...
...some respects, the Dow-Jones averages-which record the rise & fall of 65 (out of 1,398) stocks on the Big Board-did not show the true strength of the baby bull market. Day after day last week, scores of stocks hit new highs for 1947-48 and stayed there. The booming oils had even passed their 1929 peak...
Saroyan is an entertainer of a kind overrated by some people and underrated by others-a very gifted schmalz-artist. In the schmalz-artist strength and weakness are inextricably combined-the deeply, primordially valid, and the falseness of the middle-aged little boy who dives back into the womb for pennies...