Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth. Until last week Warsaw led the world with a 158,000-watt station. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest in North America with 75,000 watts. WLW's new 500,000-watt equipment makes it ten times stronger than any of its 20 biggest rivals in the U. S. Most spectacular item is its antenna-a steel frame 831 ft. tall, 35 ft. thick at the middle, tapering up to a slim spire and down almost to a point. Total cost of the venture was close...
Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...
...than a host of half-backed hysterical talkers haranguing stupid or unconvinced listeners. Students, unencumbered with entangling alliances or permanently formed views, should be well fitted to put their ounce of force behind movements making for better government. Their force may not be strong now, but it will grow stronger; and even if the concrete results of the Committee's efforts are always small, the members of the Committee will have had a chance to gain experience that will always be an asset in their probably more successful endeavors in later life. It is by its ideal and its efforts...
Producer P. T. Barnum, an expounder of temperance, never allowed anything stronger than beer served in his auditorium. But the thrifty showman must stir in his grave, into which he was lowered 43 years ago last week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...
...particularly original. Nor does it present any new views of anything. Its theme is that of the harassed father, worried by business troubles and surrounded by a conventionally affectionate family which is entirely wrapped up in its own affairs. Something happens, the family undergoes a change and comes out stronger, better, less self-centered, and realizing how much they really love the head of the house...