Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than those of any other pure-bred creature. Gamecocks would rather fight than breed or eat. They are trained as carefully as pugilists. First they chase barnyard hens to acquire morale. Wearing steel gaffs-corked except at the tip-they become accustomed to weapons by fighting inferior opponents. They strengthen their leg muscles on treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale...
...Lytton Report denounced Japan for seizing Manchuria and branded "Manchukuo" as a mere name coined by Japan to strengthen her pretense that Manchuria spontaneously revolted from China. It was War Minister Araki who brushed aside the Lytton Report as "an interesting travelogue." It became just that in Geneva last week as League statesmen drafted a resolution under which the League Assembly would virtually abandon any attempt to enforce the Lytton findings, thus bowing to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor"-i. e. to Japanese threats of withdrawal from the League...
...resourceful and unyielding fighter, Abbott Lawrence Lowell is dominantly a gentlemen of intact and abiding convictions. Opposition to his administrative projects or personal beliefs has but served to strengthen his purpose. A house plan ridiculed became to him a house plan imperatively demanding realization and justification. Abuse of Harvard's war time German department and staff appealed to his redeeming New England liberalism as the deciding factor in their continuance and protection. To be net against the course of his administration has invariably been to be set against an irresistible force...
...least serious condition, in our school and college football, is that of 'proselyting' on the part of some college graduates and football coaches in college who approach schoolboys with the intention of diverting them to their particular college, and for no other purpose than to strengthen the football team in that college, and these 'proselyters' offer inducements by way of 'athletic scholarships,' jobs as waiters, etc., and sometimes by direct payments in cash. The writer, when presiding over a boarding school, was well aware that the best football players in his school were constantly being approached by college alumni...
...interests of the British consumer were ignored by the National Government at the Ottawa [Tariff] Conference. The most valuable medicine for delicate children is cod-liver oil. Hundreds of thousands of poor parents in this country have to buy bottle after bottle to save the lives and strengthen the bodies of their babies, and most of it has been coming from Norway duty free. But now the delegates of the British Government have agreed at Ottawa to impose a tariff of 45% on cod-liver oil for the benefit of Newfoundland...