Word: strong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I am very much interested in your comment (TIME, July25) on Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth, particularly where you state that he has translated his latest work into strong, thick-muscled English. I feel perhaps you would like to know something regarding this translation...
...France, near Treves, a shrine built by Gauls to Mithras, god of light, was found. Mithras was a Persian deity, a strong rival of Christianity during the first three centuries...
...Republic eulogized it as "the highest achievement of American journalism." In 1921 professional testimony placed it high in a list of twelve daily newspapers polled in the newspaper offices of the nation as of most assistance in "interpreting the events of the day." In the same year its strong editorials drew for it the quarterback position on an all-American newspaper team assembled by the journalistic department of the University of Illinois. It has also won the honor of having more tightlipped, tight-mouthed New Englanders scan it crossly, not over three-minute eggs, but after breakfast on the porch...
According to the Journal of Commerce those re-discount reductions were the result of the recent visit with Governor Benjamin Strong (the New York Federal Reserve Bank) of Governor Montagu Norman (the Bank of England) Deputy Governor Charles Rist (the Bank of France)' and Dr. Hjalmar Schact (head of the German Reichsbank) (TIME, July 11). Those visitors went with Governor Strong to Washington for a conference with members of the Federal Reserve Board...
Last week, the day before the first anniversary of Gertrude Ederle's brass-band-accompanied swim across the English Channel, one Edward Harry Temme, 22-year-old London insurance "clark" (clerk), inserted his strong body (length, 6 ft. 2 in.; weight, 205 Ibs.) into the bitterly cold waves off Cape Gris-Nez, France, and commenced a steady trudgeon stroke toward England...