Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Extend and strengthen rent...
...Appropriations to strengthen the military defenses of the nation...
General Wei would try to make the mop-up as costly to the Reds as possible, try to gain time for his side to strengthen North China. But Mukden's defenders were short of food, fuel and ammunition. Planes of General Claire Chennault's commercial airline shuttled in & out, evacuating nonessential government workers, carrying sacks of flour on the trip in. Then the flour ran out. The flour planes found a substitute. To Mukden's cold and hungry soldiers last week came planeloads of almost worthless bank notes...
...office of President of the United States is one of moral leadership, and the President can often strengthen the psychological sinews and confidence of the nation by the use of "glittering generalities" which would not stand the test of critical dismemberment...
...Commission's report brings into full view the vast educational needs of the country; it serves as an honest beginning for a job of constructive effort that must strengthen and expand colleges before a half-hearted retreat into days of academic scarcity begins. Yet neither the problems the Commission attacks nor the proposals it offers are now. The past few years have only made the situation more precarious. The importance of the report lies in whether it will spur state and federal governments to use it as a guide for building up higher education to a point at least adequate...