Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only immediate result was retirement from the East Texas fields of the Federal Tender Board, which had executed President Roosevelt's unconstitutional ban on interstate shipments of hot oil. Its retirement, however, was by no means the signal for reopening every secret valve and bypass. A stronger Texas hot oil law went into action on Christmas Day, and despite the thuggery, bribery, judicial connivance and wholesale corruption that taint most oil operations in the East Texas fields, State control appeared to be working for once...
...jail in a small, law-abiding town because he had solicited a passing car for a lift. But John Bole was no common hitchhiker. On the jailer and the jailer's wife he made a strongly mysterious impression; his effect on the jailer's daughter was even stronger. When his time was up she insisted on going with him, though he made it clear to her that he was only a visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing from a woman of his own kind...
...chance of advancement. First there was long, lanky Joseph Wellington Byrns of Nashville. As Majority Floor Leader in the 73rd Congress he claimed precedent, tradition, seniority and everything but divine right for his elevation to the Speakership of the 74th. To that good start he added the still stronger claim of gratitude. As chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Committee bushy-browed "Joe" Byrns wrote letters to dozens of Democrats in the last Congress who wanted to be reelected, authorizing them to tell their constituents that "Joe" Byrns said they were indispensable to the New Deal...
Only Jim Grady was able to elude the Red and Blue defense with any regularity, and he was held to six points. The Harvard team seemed slow and unsure in comparison to their stronger rivals. Captain Boys, who started at guard, was again sent out on fouls, and even Long Bill Gray was rendered ineffectual by the close Quaker guarding...
...circumstances seem to have demanded stronger measures from a female rat recently observed. At the same time as her litter was removed, a male was placed in her cage. Immediately she drove him to a corner in the forefront of the cage, where he was obliged to stand on his hind legs and to remain so standing, while she excitedly brought pieces of hay, and, literally, walled him in. The hay was patted in place, to the full height of the cage, so that she might not see him. She herself was totally without bedding ultimately. The state of siege...