Word: strong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibitionists nominated a man named William F. Varney, of Rockville Center, N. Y., for President of the U. S., but reserved the right to shift to Herbert C. Hoover instead of Mr. Varney should Mr. Hoover care to state specifically that .5% is as strong as he thinks liquor should ever be permitted to be in the U. S. A man named James A. Edgerton, of Alexandria, Va., was nominated for Vice President...
...arms of grief are very strong...
Dutch officials of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation said indignantly that their doors were intentionally designed so that the blast of air would make it absolutely impossible for them to be opened in flight, except by the united efforts of two very strong...
...declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
...quoting Literary Digest existed in 1871 to extract the first strong utterances of the Omaha Bee. Staunchly Republican, the Omaha Bee fought many a battle with its senior, the Democratic Omaha World-Herald. Most fast, most furious, were the wars of 1894-96, when a silver-tongued Boy Orator sat in the editor's chair at the World-Herald offices. William Jennings Bryan was no mean antagonist. His personality still dominates the World-Herald. Such battles tested, strengthened the Omaha Bee, so that its name became a Literary Digest perennial...