Word: strongely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, the Captain rapped, "You may make it doubly strong! . . . One Scotland Yard detective, after inspecting the mail compartment and the method of protecting the mail on the Leviathan, assured me that he did not see how the robbery could have been committed aboard ship...
...Never before have there existed such strong forces interested in dividing America, fomenting suspicions and raising the banner which encourages the legend of a Saxon imperialism and a Latin servitude. All this happens . . . because America is increasing its wealth and advancing its civilization while other countries are irremediably declining...
...would be upset. With the taste for theories and computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having one great player, perhaps...
...June Manager "Sunday School" Branch Rickey was ousted, Hornsby was made manager. Except that his face and hands were cleaner, he still looked much the same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture
...sacrificing the man Claire worships with a terrifying first love- Hague, whom Louise endeavors to ensnare with her ripe allure. But neither of them had reckoned with Hague's mature distaste for decadence, or with his vigorous taste for pastels. "Civilization" requires that sentimentality be curbed by humor, strong passion camouflaged by casual words. Author Meynell's is a civilized novel. The story of Claire's unselfishness is not cluttered with realistic details concerning Louise's husband who "had drifted into a discreditable way of life," Louise herself who "made all men feel a little virtuous...