Word: stronge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
History to Make. There was general agreement that this court was above average. What this really meant was that there were above average justices on it. The absence of a strong disciplinarian like the late Chief Justice Hughes contributed to the haggling among the justices; so did the ever-growing complexity of the problems which they were called upon to solve...
...trap was sprung by hard-riding horsemen of Ma Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile...
...effect, U.S. companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside U.S. borders. Chile was reluctant to take the move. But its determination to stand on its own economic feet, whether well-shod by U.S. dollars or not, was too strong to permit an alternative...
...Zurich, gossipy rumors of a tiff between Cinemactress Jennifer Jones, 30, and her boss, Cinemagnate David O. Selzniclc, 47, prompted a strong statement from him: "It's an absolute big lie that Miss Jones and I have had or are having any disagreement. We are great friends and always have been . . . The date of our marriage has not been fixed. To decide upon that is up to the lady...
...stand will convince educators and legislators that a university, as the world has known it, is not a collection of timid souls vaccinated by jumpy men like Mr. Ober against ideo-logical disease. A university is a home for men free to grapple with an heretical germ and strong enough to resist the forces of fear and hysteria...