Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority of Mexicans call it a "dignified compromise." Dissenting were the radical anti-clerics. They protest that it is a world defeat for the forces of Liberalism. An unnamed politician said: "The Roman Church will strengthen its hold, especially on the Latin-American countries, which are watching Mexico's test and are anxious to follow her example . . . to free themselves from the yoke of the clergy...
...august and dingy walls of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris guarded last week France's latest peace offering. In the Galerie Mazarine there hung 1,400 portraits of famed contemporary Frenchmen, ready for distribution among 14 leading U. S. universities "to strengthen the ties of friendship and understanding between France and the United States...
Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...
...suspended from a central tower by cables. The inventor uses for the main theory of his work the principle that triangles and hexagons are the usual forms of natural objects, and, consequently, the most stable. He pointed out that the force of gravity tends to destroy a square and strengthen a triangle or hexagon...
...officers of commonwealth and of nation prepared to rush from points afar to insure the adequacy of the patriotic boycott on the one little Sovkino film and the one little theatre. Racing to the Hub of the revolutionary district, cabinet officials turned over in their minds ambitious plans to strengthen the tottering morale of the navy, while Moscow fairly seethed with indignation at the impending suspension of artistic recognition...