Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectators heard little to remind them of Schacht's vast power as Reich Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank, or of the bloodless crimes involved in his financial manipulation to strengthen the Nazis. Said a U.S. staff member: "He's getting ready for his reception in America-probably brushing up his English." Said a 22-year-old U.S. court stenographer: "My, he's cute...
Their work will greatly strengthen the outfield, which has been the team's main problem. Rodis, according to Coach Stahl, is one of the best hitters on the squad. In this department, Swegan has been pacing the team with a sparkling .500 average. He is followed by third baseman Bill Ayers with .427, first baseman and marathoner Bill Fitz at .375, and second baseman Saul Mariaschin...
...improved cement Marshall brought from Washington-more definite promises of monetary and commercial aid, encouragement of private investment-would help strengthen the Central Government's efforts to establish its sovereignty and restore order. But Marshall well knew that no foreigner-however great his prestige - could mend a 20-year rift, or could stay indefinitely to enforce a truce. The Chinese themselves must do both, and some recognized the fact...
...historic 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man has been rewritten. The old freedom of thought, conscience and expression is assured. The M.R.P. tried to strengthen this with a specific guarantee of freedom of the press (not contained in the Third Republic's Constitution of 1875). But the Communists and Socialists refused, ostensibly to prevent the re-emergence of the Third Republic's notoriously venal newspapers...
...From the days of the French Revolution onwards a new religion has been taking possession of the souls of men-a religion of secular humanism. The main articles of this faith are that the exercise of reason and the extension of education are in themselves enough to purify and strengthen the nature of man and enable him to make the world a progressively better place; that a high standard of moral conduct can be confidently commended to the hearts of men on its own merits and by its own authority...