Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students of the former enemy countries were not invited to this Congress; thus the C. I. E. started as an organization of the students of the Allied and Associated Powers, and it seemed at first that it would even increase and strengthen the differences and controversies which divided the former belligerents. At the Congress of Strassburg the National Student Unions of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Roumania, Spain and Tchecho-Slovakia were registered as full members, and the representatives of America, Denmark, England, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and Yougoslavia as free members...
...notable exception. Nevertheless its dramatis personnae are depicted trenchantly even for reading; they never become mere ectoplasmic silhouettes. The play is a good one; it has inherent dramatic essence. If it does not place Mr. Kelly in the upper hierarchy of the American Theatre, at least it will strengthen his growing reputation...
...Coach Mitchell said: "With the exception of the pitching department the team shows promise of shaping up well this season. We were hard-hit by graduation in this department. I expect to try to make a pitcher out of Lord and the addition of Barbee to the squad will strengthen the hurling corps to a considerable degree...
Then both sides retired from Philadelphia, the scene of negotiations, and reopened their "propaganda works." The mine leaders arranged mass meetings to strengthen the morale of their followers. The operators turned to print and ink to try to induce the miners to repudiate their leaders...
...outlook for any speedy conversion of these students to political democracy in the extreme form propagated by the international Left is small. Rather, it does not exist. Future development is almost certain to strengthen the present trend, and this especally because of the fact that the recently organized "Hochschulring deutscher Art" has became a powerful factor among both graduates and undergraduates. This organization, which embraces all students of German tongue, not merely in Germany, but also in Bohemia, Austria, Danzig, etc., is growing rapidly. Its aim is 'to develop loyalty, uprightness, nobility of character, and the ability to defend ourselves...