Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman group which will play in the preliminary game at 6:30 o'clock with the B.U. Yearlings may have difficulty, but it is unlikely. The Freshman squad this year is stronger than it has been for some seasons. Since Vin Horrigan and Tread Rumi were both good working centers, Ruml has been converted into a forward. Coach Adolph Samborski has been pointing his outfit for this game during the past week, and the Yearlings should put on a finished performance
...second place, the young Japs mature at least three to four years before the Americans, and for some reason they are stronger through their abdomens. Furthermore, the average height of their crack swimmers is within three inches of six feet; they are not the diminutive Islandars of whom one generally thinks at the mention of the Japanese, but the inhabitants of the northern Isles who enjoy a cooler climate and a more rugged life...
...cosmic ray bombardment strong or weak with changing latitude. Later a longitude differential was found. Last week, with intensity figures for electroscopes carried on nine ships sailing the seven seas. Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's cosmic ray luminary, told the academicians that the rays are stronger in India and the Eastern Hemisphere generally than in the Western, interpreted this to mean that Earth, as a magnet, is lopsided...
...Story of the Other Wise Man) is one of the most ironic in the history of U. S. culture. Sophisticated readers may ignore his achievements, may feel considerable discomfort that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records of his ineffectual activities in politics...
...tradition which binds Harvard, Yale, and Princeton together is a satisfactory one. While altercations have at one time or another disturbed the relations of each member of the "big three", tradition has always proved to be the stronger combatant. That is as it should...