Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...
...created; a flying officer should be placed on the general staff; two additional brigadier generals should be created in the air service; extra pay and if possible some form of insurance should be granted to those on flying duty as compensation for extra hazards; means should be taken to strengthen the aviation reserve and to study the desirability of using enlisted men as pilots...
Since then the question resolves itself into one of preparation, man must search carefully for those qualities which are most likely to strengthen him in his fray with the thing he has built. A fair contention is that these lie with in the realms of the spirit. Whether the dreams of philosophy or the vapors of mysticism or the rigors of a revealed religion or even the flickering flare of a poet's fancy lead him on, he must at last seek refreshment and reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world...
...regarded as certain that Maréchal Pétain will strengthen his present formidable line into, an impregnable winter position rather than attempt to gain an immediate victory. In Paris talk of Foch and 1918 has subsided...
...attempts to oppose it is ministering to its own downfall. Consequently the Government in issuing invitations to the customs conference wanted to have customs automony discussed with a view to throwing out foreign control of tariff collection-or, if that is unobtainable, to secure such high duties as will strengthen it by increasing its revenue and enabling it to reduce internal taxes. If the Chinese can induce the conference to make preparations for the abolition of extraterritoriality (special privileges for foreigners resident in China) - that would be another feather...