Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Lawrence B. Bixby, coach of the team, yesterday said , "The team is stronger this year than it ever has been before. The addition of several promising marksmen makes me feel that this may be the most successful intercollegiate season we have ever experienced...
...reserves proved stronger than expected and give promise of a well balanced team. The game with Milton Academy, scheduled for this afternoon, has been postponed because...
...Morris which few U. S. readers are likely to possess. Reveling in the factional fights, manifestoes, grandiose plans and pitiful performances that then distinguished English Socialism, Shaw was more at horns among them than Morris, who was a radical from a strong sense of moral duty and an even stronger revulsion from the ugliness of industrialism. Morris was a "very great literary artist" but his tremendous vocabulary was often no help in describing uncongenial modern things. Shaw would suggest the right word, whereupon Morris would gasp with relief. Morris was infuriated with hecklers at debates, while Shaw courted them...
...short distances above ground. By carrying instruments up in balloons, Hess, Gockel and Kolhörster killed off the terrestrial radioactivity theory. In 1911 Hess made seven flights to 3,000 ft., found no decrease in the rays whatever. Later, nearly six miles up, he found them seven times stronger than on the ground. "A radiation of very high penetrating power," he wrote, "enters our atmosphere from above...
...Drake and Cecil Isbell, according to Coach Kizer, were abler than any of the "Four Horsemen." Fordham's strength was a line nicknamed the "Seven Blocks of Granite," who had permitted their goal to be crossed only twice this year and who, according to Coach Crowley, were even stronger than the "Seven Mules...