Word: strong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college ranks last season, they include F. B. Cutts '28, Willard Howard '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, and R. M. Whittemore '29, all of them capable men in the box. Cutts' batting eye, which sent him into several games last season as a pinch hitter, makes him also a strong candidate for a post in the outfield when he is called upon to do mound duty...
Again I cannot refrain from enlightening Louisville Lou that, aside from the eminence of the owners of the "funny pictures" which it had been his "thought to discontinue looking at," they are faces generally acknowledged to be extremely strong and handsome...
...nation is not so ready to accept the dictatorship of Vintila Bratiano, a single-track pedantic conservative, as it was to obey his late brother Jon Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations...
...that we were advised not to undertake it by the Italian authorities. The plane had dual controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle carries ten gallons of gasoline and that gives it a range of about 475 miles...
...August the Strong, King of Saxony and Poland, was the father of 354 children...