Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many do, that Cezanne is a painter who appeals primarily to the intellect. Despite the fact that his style is one the foundation of which rests in a mental concept of his subject, his feeling for shape and his comprehensive power of suggesting texture and quality, serve to strengthen and support my belief in his capacity for influencing the senses. Like most great painters, Cezanne succeeds in striking a just balance between the sense and the intellect...
...with only two-thirds the value of the U. S. domestic barber business) and U. S. resources in the Philippines (gold, iron, chromite, manganese, tobacco, hemp, timber, sugar) are not worth holding at the risk of conflict; that the U. S. should withdraw to the Panama-Hawaii-Alaska front, strengthen defenses there...
While France's Paul Reynaud and Britain's Sir John Simon put their heads together to strengthen the external economy of the Allies (see above), one of Britain's leading economists advanced a notable plan to strengthen Britain's internal economy, to help pay for the war while it is being fought, to help smooth the economic bumps which must be felt when it is over. Author was "The Stinger in the Triple Bromide"-Economist John Maynard Keynes, who, as a member of the Economic Advisory Council and secretary of the Royal Economic Society, frequently stimulates...
...optical illusion" was the candid statement of one baffled (Yardling last week after watching Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education execute a complicated gyration designed to strengthen a music of whose existence most of his charges were completely unaware...
...Your support of the policy I have maintained, with the approval and authority of the Corporation, by your agreement with the advice given in this letter, will, I think, strengthen the Iiberal position of the University, which is what we are all interested in," Greene wrote...