Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the likeliest explanation lies in the fact that his family were all Elis. In deserting Harvard he is only returning to an original allegiance, stronger than the allegiance Harvard claims...
...extent that makes C. I. O. howl that A. F. of L. is chartering company unions. Last week in Manhattan he asked the American Legion (see p. 12) for aid & comfort, declaring : "It is my well-considered opinion that the call of the hour is for a closer and stronger relationship between the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion...
...which its elected officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson had entertained two young ladies in his apartment, one of whom felt too tired from a previous party to drink anything stronger than ginger ale. As for official misconduct on the part of the Governor or bribery on the part of Lobbyist Dickerson, the records proved little. Digging into the jumble of verbiage, the closest thing to actual evidence of corruption that anyone could find was a cryptic statement by a State...
...Shanghai, whose neutrality is theoreti cally protected by the guns of half-a-dozen foreign powers. During the 1932 siege Japanese warships would calmly attack Chinese Shanghai, then calmly claim sanctuary in the International Settlement, using it as a base and openly landing troops there. China is a bigger, stronger country than she was five years ago and there were signs aplenty last week that she was in no mood to let Japan repeat this particular performance. To protect the International Settlement, there were in Shanghai last week...
...three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded the Ringlings to retire Babe to his pachyderm house. Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants soon discovered she had brought her ruling manner with her. Her stanchest admirers were the President's grandchildren, Sistie and Buzzie Dall...