Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loses a potential national intercollegiate champion through premature war service graduation, and still gets eight hours sleep a night, it is time to examine the rest of his team. Varsity mentor Jaakko Mikkola will miss javelin thrower Dave Murray this spring. He will have other headaches too, trying to strengthen the sprint department. But overbalancing these defects is the apparent overall depth of the team. The Varsity squad which emerged from Briggs Cage two weeks ago is virtually the same one which grabbed fourth place in the indoor IC4A meet earlier this month and which throttled the Bulldog...
...Lucius D. Clay, newly-appointed dynamic Commander of American forces in Europe, arrived today in Moscow from Berlin at 2:45 P.M. (6:45 A.M. E.S.T.) today to strengthen Marshall's hands in the vital talks...
With the naming of Kelleher to the new chair, the University adds new recognition to the importance of modern Irish literature and history. His appointment will strengthen the teaching of modern Irish literature written in English...
...would amend the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner act). It would guarantee employers the right to state their position in a labor dispute. It would protect craft unions and minorities from the past tendencies of NLRB, which often ruled in favor of big industrial unions. Thus the bill would "strengthen, not weaken, the rights of employees," said Ball. But it would not touch labor's right to organize, the cherished and long-fought-for right which the Wagner act insured...
...McBride came away from last week's show convinced that Homer "is our best man, the one who puts most into pictures of that which Americans have got out of life . . . believe me it is a show. Attendance at it should be made compulsory by law. It would strengthen the country...