Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Flood of 1937 seeped off the nation's front pages last week. But for a half-million people along the lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week's end. High wind or heavy rain might still send the swollen river roaring through and over them...
...Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there. He wrote two. The unofficial...
...desirability of distributing the function of tutoring over a larger number of the permanent members of the Faculty. In this way it would be possible to reduce the rapid turnover that would otherwise be necessary, increase the opportunity for promotion for a larger number of young tutors of ability, strengthen the tutorial staff, and improve the quality of tutorial instruction...
Dean Hanford devoted considerable attention to various proposals for revision of the tutorial system, and declared that changes should strengthen the system and not endanger the progress attained in the last 25 years...
...beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene moved Surplus Commodities Corp. To strengthen the wholesale market it recommended, and Secretary Wallace approved, purchase of 179,000 dozen eggs on the New York Mercantile Exchange...