Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
...object of the society," wrote he, "is to strengthen the ties between Oxford and its old members. . . . There are many ways in which they can help her-with advice, with encouragement, with backing in the outside world, as well as with financial support. The university needs money, but she needs perhaps more the invigorating influence which comes from a keen and active body of old members...
Stalin: Certainly, Peter the Great did much ... to create and strengthen a national government of landlords and traders ... at the cost of the serf, the peasantry, who were thrice skinned...
...late great Enrico Caruso. To succeed Gigli Mr. Gatti has chosen Tenor Tito Schipa, another short, plump Italian, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera.* Also from Chicago will come Frida Leider, great Wagnerian Soprano long coveted by the Metropolitan. Tenor Gustaaf de Loor and Basso-Baritone Ludwig Hofmann will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire: Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Giachino Antonio Rossini's II Signor Bruschino...
Whether it will strengthen the Club's position in other ways is more doubtful. Harvard, of all places, is probably the last where a substantial number of students can be brought to join in any radical program. The opinions expressed in the letter printed in an adjacent column of the CRIMSON will probably be endorsed by those who have been interested in, though not members, of the Liberal Club. It presents clearly the case against the Club's decision...