Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since radial air-cooled engines began to supplant other types, their power has been steadily stepped up by supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since 1929 they have been tinkering with 14 cylinders in two banks, with smaller bores and lighter, more frequent power impulses...
...proved stronger than Strong Man Calles, the exiled Mexican said last week: "I have always considered General Cárdenas a just, honest and sound man but the moods of Cárdenas change from day to day. If there is anything that can save Mexico now, it is for labor and the middle classes to organize and fight Communism. . . . But right now Mexico is a boiling caldron of dissatisfaction. I blame Cárdenas for my exile. I will spend the remainder of my life resting. I hope to find peace in California. . . . I had nothing to do with...
...Stronger than the usual J.V. group, the Junior Varsity will meet with little trouble from the Bostonians. Archer Trench, Ham Richards, and Duane Whitney are all players of Varsity calibre...
...much was expected by those who saw in the amalgamation of all Harvard political societies a solution to the problem. While the new organization was stronger than its ancestors as far as numbers went, it was constantly being torn limb from limb by factions too mutually antagonistic to form one workable body. The only real solution would have been a fairly rigid parliamentary organization, in which the warring factions might show their true colors while restrained from revolt by rules of procedure...
Since the hoped-for reduction in the number of members seemed a stronger purgative than the Constitutional Committee was willing to take, some iron-clad provision should be made to drop those members who enter the Council as they would a club. Under the new constitution a member who misses three successive meetings "may" be removed by a two-thirds vote. This provision should be made mandatory in all except the most extraordinary cases. In the past the Council has been most prodigal in overlooking the shortcomings of its members, and unless expulsion for non-attendance is made more binding...