Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love & the Coal Trust. The Dollar Princess was Miss Alice Cowder, dashing daughter of John W. Cowder, president of the Coal Trust. Alice was a strong-minded girl, always abreast of stockmarket quotations. Of her it was said that "in any sort of weather, she works on all the while, until she's raked together, a tidy little pile."*Because her father liked to employ titled Europeans as footmen and office boys, Alice had acquired a rather low opinion of continental coronets ("You bid the right amount-you own a duke or count...
WAAB was not penalized, but the decision was a strong hint that the FCC could revoke licenses whenever it thought broadcasters were slanting the news.* Radio's biggest guns began hammering away at the decision as an unwarranted shackling of freedom of speech. To FCC's defense hurried the legions of the C.I.O. and A.F.L. and assorted left-wingers, who argued that broadcasting was a public trust and should, therefore, be impartial...
Scott, who doubles in the 440 and 880, can also cover the ground. He has run the quarter in 48.8 and holds the British Army 400 meter record. "They say he has a very strong finish," Jaakko reports...
...deeply engrossing bock. What Clark misses by his indefinite allegory and also by his sometimes tedious portrayal of petty details (endless scenes of housework in the ranch kitchen for instance) he makes up for in his absolutely unsurpassed descriptions of the mountains, the storm, the break-up of a strong man under stress, and the general atmosphere of coldness, loneliness and terror...
...Yale counterpart, Allen, Walz, a devotee of the work-em-till-they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late June. It doesn't seem...