Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loved or hated because it is a citadel of political liberty . . . but according as it seems to be a going concern, measured by its ability and willingness to contribute from its own comfortable fat to strengthen Europe's thin and shivering frame...
...first comparatively unknown to undergraduates at large and, as he admits, by no means certain of his ability to cope with the busy job of "doaning", Dean Hanford has been able, from his position as middleman between students and Faculty, to strengthen "respect for scholarship" in the former and to increase the effective energy of the latter...
...thus annoyed many a wavering member into complete support of the bill. New Jersey's hulking Charles A. Eaton, aged chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pulled out a telegram from United Nations Representative Warren R. Austin. Aid to Greece and Turkey, Austin wired, was justified, would strengthen the United Nations, should be approved...
Face-Shaving. While most of the princes were with Bhopal in hoping to weaken the central Government and strengthen their position among neglected subjects at home, each played the game according to local ground rules. Hindu and Sikh princes near territories which Mohamed Ali Jinnah claims for Pakistan opposed the creation of a Moslem state. Prominent among them was the suave, thoroughly Westernized Maharaja of Kapurthala. Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow...
Otherwise, scrappy Bob Young was riding high. The day after the Pullman decision, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved his plan to merge the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the C. & O. The C. & O. has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, but, by integrating them, Young hoped to strengthen both, effect operating economies...