Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Wall Street, "appears to be a veritable astrologer's paradise." Some 20 of the U. S.'s sizable newspapers, chiefly in larger cities, carry astrological columns. U. S. newsstands distribute over a half dozen astrology magazines. Astronomer Bok's com mittee plans a campaign to strengthen all State anti-astrology laws...
...enemies of Adolf Hitler last week, it was a hope aimed audibly and obviously across the Atlantic. Most eloquent appeal to the U. S. was that of Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. Though Eire still preferred hunger or war to giving Britain bases from which to strengthen food convoys to Britain (and Eire),* though there was little chance that the U. S. could answer the appeal, it nevertheless summed up the disruptions even to neutral nations in a world at war: "Many Irish men and women reside in Britain, and the deaths there of relatives have brought...
This change of tone suggested that perhaps Franklin Roosevelt had really touched the Axis' quick with his increasing and increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
...laurel and palm from King George VI. In the middle of the service there was a special prayer: "Most merciful and compassionate God and Father of all men, we commend to Thy loving care and protection the people of Great Britain. In this hour of their need do Thou strengthen and sustain them. Guard and save them from the violence of their enemies...
...months ago Señora Dávila fell ill, had one operation, then another. Physicians told her that her best hope for recovery was to return to Chile. Last week in Chile it was summer, and the warm sun of her native land might strengthen Senora Dávila's waning vitality. But she could not stand a long sea voyage, or the comparatively slow flight by Clipper...