Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on Miss Bullard's gift to the Medical School, Dean George Packard Berry said, "Miss Bullard's interest in supporting research in the field of neurology at the Harvard Medical School will not only greatly strengthen existing activities but also foster research in new areas of basic science as applied to neurological problems...
...uncertainty over non-Honors arose in February of 1958, when the CEP concluded that non-Honors junior tutorial had proved "disappointing," and suggested that it be discontinued "as a required operation." At the same time, the CEP drew up a program to strengthen Honors tutorial, leaving an even wider split between Honors and non-Honors programs...
...fortunate in having an economy so richly productive as to sustain a most powerful defense without impairment of human values. Without this military strength our efforts to provide a shield for freedom and to preserve and strengthen peace would be futile. We are determined that in quality and power this force shall forever be kept adequate for our security needs until the conference table can replace the battlefield as the arbiter of world affairs...
Busy, ancient (78) Pope John XXIII acted again last week to strengthen the Curia-administrative headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church-which has suffered in recent years from understaffing and old age. For Dec. 14 the Pope called a consistory (his second) at which eight new cardinals will be created, raising the membership of the Sacred College to 79, the largest in history...
...thus led to oppose reunification of Germany--a stand unpopular with German public opinion, but necessary to his design. At present, time is working for the French. Their industry is expanding rapidly; their birth rate is the highest in Europe; and the end of the Algerian war will strengthen their power on the Continent...