Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boilermakers, who received wages simultaneously for their plumbing, their boiler-making, and their playing. Factories had their teams, mill towns and vinegar works were advertised as much by the efficiency of their elevens as the excellence of their wares. Sometimes these teams "bought" college players with big reputations to strengthen their lineups; sometimes they developed players who were afterwards "bought" by colleges. It was common practice for the big universities then, as it is for the smaller ones still, to entice able players to enroll as undergraduates, and spend six or seven years, to be graduated at length with...
Cause. "Recent work tends to strengthen the truth that cancer is not due to a living agent comparable to those responsible for the infectious diseases, nor does it appear to be due to a cytotropic virus. These considerations should lead us to believe that cancer is not a communicable disease and this belief should be spread among physicians and the public...
...meet each other and hear talks by President Lewell and the faculty which make one realize the joy of being alive and entered in a real school. Further more the associations that you form at these smokers are of inestimable value. Dances and smokers throughout the year conspire to strengthen newly formed acomintanccs which are the beginning of life-long friendships...
Russia is playing both ends against the middle-and Sun is "bystanding" in the middle. He can strengthen the midriff of Chang and Wu or deliver there something like a solar plexus punch. During the week he listened, seemingly impassive, to bids and bribes from all quarters...
Along the Danube, 40,000 men, with 10,000 horses and wagons, strove frantically to strengthen dikes and dams, to no avail. Dams burst. Dikes spouted. The Bačka region, above Belgrade, one of Europe's richest granaries, became a broad lake. Tens of thousands of city dwellers fled for higher land...