Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Gibbons gained was the crucial tally of the meet, for before the 440 Brown had scored 35 points, needing only a three-point second place to clinch the contest with the required 38. If Powers had won, if Crimson sprinters had placed better, if our breastrokers had been stronger--in other words if Harvard had finished one place better in any event to secure that precious single counter, the score would have been 38-37 for the Ulenmen, for the seven-point free-style relay fell to Harvard, too late...
...national person that a showdown between these opposing forces can be avoided that appeasement, granted by the democracies to the totalitarian states with the demand of a quid pro quo, can reestablish international order. The weapons for this accomplishment are economic. "There are many methods short of war, but stronger and more effective than words, of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people," the President significantly said Wednesday...
...Like. Not since 1917 has the U. S. given any nation such a comeuppance. It was stronger than the recent notes to Germany on the repudiated Austrian debt and the refugee problem, stronger than the "temporary recall" of Ambassador Hugh Wilson. It was so strong that the Nazi Government did not even let its press tell the German people about it. It was as close to a severance of diplomatic relations as two "friendly" nations...
...weeks of squabbling stripped the Declaration of much of its psychological force to the dictator countries of Europe and even in the Americas. Nazi news-sheets dubbed the Conference "U. S. Failure No. 1." Many Latin American delegations were disappointed that Mr. Hull failed to assume stronger leadership. But the Declaration went further than the 1936 solidarity pact of Buenos Aires in providing for mutual consultation in a crisis...
...Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...