Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this man and to this man's government it is now proposed to present $1,500,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money. It is to fatten this monster and strengthen his arm, to sharpen his sword, to enlarge his cannon, to increase his war fleets, that it is proposed to settle with Italy in a manner that is nothing but grand larceny perpetrated upon the American people...
...This has been done under reservations which adequately safeguard American rights and also tend to strengthen the independence of the Court...
...differ with him only as to time, which is a detail. He believes the foundation for independence is insufficiently strong and he is trying to strengthen it, although at times we do not agree with the methods he follows, which he sincerely believes to be best...
...other aspects of student life in Oxford and Cambridge, which may more directly interest Harvard men, and which I have had opportunities of observing, strengthen my opinion that an establishment of resident student groups at Harvard, analogous to the English colleges, will restore to the undergraduates all the opportunities for social contacts, foundations of lasting friendships, and mutual intellectual stimulus which the men of my generation enjoyed in full measure and which the smaller colleges offer today. Even in the larger English colleges, like Christchurch at Oxford, and Trinity at Cambridge, mutual acquaintance extends over the whole undergraduate body...
...suffered was so great a handicap as to make some change necessary. The first step in modifying this complete hiatus between the retiring and incoming boards was to elect three men in March who belonged to the small class that had entered after the previous mid-year period. To strengthen further the continuity thus established, it was decided this year to take on three men from the regular class after their first term. Positions on the board are now held by the three men from March to march, and 17 from September to June, three of whom are taken...