Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general purpose of the 300th Anniversary Fund is to strengthen the intellectual and spiritual life and increase the usefulness of the University, first, by the creation of a number of new professorships to be known as "University Professorships"; and second, by the establishment of new "Harvard National Scholarships...
...quarreled with Mussolini" at one time or another. Air Marshal Italo Balbo, once rumored "banished'' to the post of Governor of Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome repeatedly since the outset of the war and on warplane shopping trips to France to strengthen Italy's air arm. As sanctions applied by the League of Nations (with Britain applying the spurs and France tugging on the check rein) came into effect this week, Italy was so far from irresolute or bluffing that the greatest of her surviving World War commanders. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...responsibility rests on the shoulders of the G. O. P. The Elephant must strengthen and co-ordinate his forces so that he no longer leaves, one or two feet behind him. He must relinquish a placid existence and militantly bring home to the country just what is wrong with Mr. Roosevelt. He must plan a great deal of constructive action during the next years...
Defensive work has been stressed during the past few days, with especial effort being made to strengthen the forward defences which permitted the Bruin booters to score...
Seventy-five spines crack simultaneously in the Special Exercise Room every afternoon as 75 candidates for berths on the Freshman and Varsity swimming teams are driven-through a series of contortions designed to strengthen that set of muscles most needed to drive natators on to new records...