Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allen '26, L. L. Robb '25, F. P. Kane '26, and C. G. T. Lundell '27 will probably run for Harvard, but there is a possibility that E. C. Haggerty '27, who is entered in the special 500-yard event, will be used in the relay instead. He would strengthen the relay combination materially if Coach Farrell decides to shift...
...chosen by the cooperatives to coordinate Federal activities as outlined above. Third Report. Efforts should be made to improve the spirit of sympathetic cooperation in Federal agencies dealing with agriculture, and to improve their efficiency by preventing jealousies and duplication of effort. Efforts should be made to strengthen the banks serving farmers, especially by enlarging the national bank system. The activities of the Government in establishing quarantines against animal and plant diseases, and in gathering market and crop information, already valuable, should be improved and extended. The Cooperative Marketing Board (suggested in the Second Report) should be empowered to represent...
...illustrates but too clearly. And then there is France. The key to her whole recent diplomacy is her attempt to ring her former foes around with her own military satellites and to build up these petty states as much as possible. A union of Austria and Germany would certainly strengthen the former and possibly the latter; and French policy demands the weakening of both. Inasmuch as a single vote in the Council of the League can block this project, France holds the whip hand...
...suggestion which Mr. Hammond has made in the article reprinted below is one that will receive the hearty approval of those genuinely interested in the theatre and its development. To choose the best available man to succeed Professor Baker, to strengthen the Workshop further by associating with it men of high ideals actively engaged in developing American drama, are steps which must be taken, and at once. It may be that "an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild" is impossible; but all things are impossible until they have been tried. The past is bitter; "that way madness lies...
...distinction he might have had to make to the little boys on the losing teams-that between a special student and a ringer. He asserted, in effect, that since the Battle of Waterloo had been lost many times on the playing fields of Massee, he had been advised to strengthen the school's prowess in sport by judicious advertising. His advertisement had been printed "for some time," and rallied to Mr. Slack's service, he declared, "eight fine fellows" (among them the captains of the Massee football and basketball teams). For these he cut the tuition rates from...