Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge Chronicle publishes the following astonishing piece of news: "Now if you will imagine eight strong fellows stepping from seat to seat and taking their places; the captain, cigarette in hand, calling "Ready!" "Row!" and then the steady splash of oars for a long, long time in the flickering gaslight-see this and you see it all. Yale also has a tank which, unfortunately, an inventor claims as his own idea, and a suit is liable...
There is a strong effort being made at Exeter to abolish the tug-of-war contests in the winter meeting, on account of the dangers of physical injury...
...stand to take, and we have no doubt that all who think the matter over will agree with it. There is barely room in the course rowed every year for four crews, especially at the starting point, and a fifth crew would seriously inconvenience all. This is a very strong ground for refusing. And in the second place, a crew from the Law School made up of older men, some of whom are experienced oarsmen, would tend seriously to discourage the interest in the races among the regular class crews...
...liberal policy, she can be fairly called the leading state in Europe. Another important factor in this resuscitation was the growth of national feeling. The Germans of all ranks and conditions-prince and burgher, wealthy and poor-all began to be filled with a desire for union, for a strong centralized government. The causes of the growth of nationality lie in the political events of 1858, when William came to the throne, when the reactionary ministry of Mannteuffel gave way to the liberal policy of Autin von Hohenstaufen in Prussia's successful war of 1864 against Schleswig-Holstein...
Professor Daniel C. Eaton of Yale University has presented to the Connecticut Legislature strong objections to the granting of a charter to a newly organized company in New Haven for the running of street cars by electricity conducted through overhead wires...