Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeating Tufts; it is felt that Harvard would be laying the foundation for a stronger front against every other team remaining on the schedule. A victory today would raise the morals of the team and strengthen the confidence of the Harvard graduates and undergraduates as well...
Said William Jennings Bryan at an evening session at which President Coolidge was present: " If the President and his Cabinet with the Governors and their advisors would publicly announce that they themselves are teetotalers and will not use intoxicants themselves, it would do more to strengthen the prohibition sentiment of the nation than anything else could...
...able to take his place with the linksmen next spring as he expects to complete his course at mid-years. However, G. G. Folin Use, who played on his Freshman team in 1920 and on the University sextet the following year has returned to college and will help to strengthen the linksmen considerably in their fight for the intercollegiate league pennant. Palmer Dixon '25, who has heretofore devoted the majority of his time to tennis, but who is also a golfer of ability, will be a candidate for the team in the spring...
...Attorney General's dictum was apparently an outgrowth of the strong sentiment in the American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...
...them to represent China in the Far Eastern Olympic Games if he could prove himself worthy of that high honor. And the boys from the different schools as they cheered their different teams on to victory found their spirit of school loyalty within them being strengthened both by victory and defeat. It is different enough for American boys to take defeat without giving up, but it is doubly difficult for the China boy because if he is defeated he "loses face". Athletics will thus strengthen the spirit of devoted patriotism and loyality to China which has already done so much...