Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the new equipment will be functional as well as "aesthetic looking," the traditional Harvard chair will be retained, since "it has great sentimental value to alumni and undergraduates. But we're looking for ways to strengthen its construction," Trottenberg said...
...attempt to strengthen the league is the second such move in the last two years. In February of 1952 the presidents of the eight colleges passed a resolution calling for every school to play each other Ivy member at least once every five years, starting with the fall...
Strong has defined the purpose of his organization as "to strengthen and make effective law enforcement in the field of gambling, narcotics, vice, and corruption...
...power is in the love of the people." But Greece's Queen is no royal flibbertigibbet. Born to the purple as well as being married to it, she takes what she calls "this King business" with deadly seriousness, and exploits every ounce of her charm and wit to strengthen its power...
...reason, said Gallagher, for harassed educators to tar Jenner's committee with the dirty brush used to counterattack Joe McCarthy. He concluded: "Where we find honesty and integrity coupled with high principles and sound operations, with an absence of headline-seeking and a genuine desire to strengthen free institutions...