Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NERVOUS WRECK?A surprisingly amusing application of the homeopathic treatment to strengthen a young man's nerve by smashing crockery all around...
...Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, he was permitted the use of the Professor's private laboratory, and spent a large part of his time there. After he became President of the University in later years, he maintained an especial interest in the Division of Chemistry, and did much to strengthen the department...
...France the acidity of feeling was accentuated by the fact that the Sultan of Morocco, who is amenable to French influence and who has never recognized the Califate of Constantinople, would be a candidate for the position of Calif, and could be relied upon to strengthen French prestige in Tunis, Algiers and Morocco, as well as in the Near East...
...invests in a buried bone. A peasant invests in a silver filled stocking. A fool invests in wildcat stock. But a Manchurian War Lord invests in munitions. Chang Tso-Lin, sitting at Mukden, took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new purchases. He prepared for Spring "maneuvers." So he bought a shipload of French munitions. He tried to buy a few warehouses full of Italian arms which were encumbering the vicinity of Peking, but negotiations fell through so he sent to Holland and bought a big shipment of arms that was stranded there...
...first statement to the press since he took over Lenin's job, President Rykov said that while international affairs remained complicated by the Versailles Treaty, Russia would keep a Red Army for defensive purposes. He expressed sympathy with "awakening Asia" and hoped to strengthen Russia's relations with Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, China and other countries of the East...