Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accelerators. For many other men, it is a valuable chance to pick up courses which they cannot otherwise fit into their programs. The present policy denies these students a summer at another college with a different outlook, and it prevents specialists from getting credit for work at schools particularly strong in their fields. To outsiders, the College's stand looks suspiciously like traditional "Harvard snobbery;" for undergraduates, it is both unjust and unnecessary...
Folls Team Strong...
...Fair Deal has run into a strong foul wind from Dixie. The noisome success of the filibuster means not only the postponement of civil rights legislation, but a severe loss in prestige for Truman Democrats. Perhaps more important, the fears that Senate Torics on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line would join forces to balk Administration action have been sadly justified...
Anna Louise Strong, 63, back in Manhattan after getting kicked out of her beloved Moscow, collapsed from "complete physical and nervous exhaustion," had to postpone her scheduled appearance before a federal grand jury investigating espionage...
...failure of the westerlies had the opposite effect in the east. A high-pressure area (the Bermuda High) was unusually strong and hung persistently off the coast. The wind circulating clockwise around it brought warm, moist air from over the Gulf Stream. Unchecked by the westerlies, it penetrated far into the interior, keeping the western cold away and giving the eastern U.S. a balmy "maritime" winter...