Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sowden Sims, U. S. N. retired, who has spent 42 of his 75 years at sea: "The sea is fine when viewed from the shore but I am unable to understand how men can slop around in small boats and like it better the wetter they get and the stronger they smell of fish. . . . I never liked going...
...plan to spend $354,000.000 in favor of its own plan to spend only $243,000,000 more than the President wanted. Cause of this revolt was primarily the Congressional desire to placate the American Legion and Government employes before election next autumn-a desire which will probably grow stronger as the session draws to a close. To the President the pension and pay restoration was a bigger defeat than either the bonus bill or the St. Lawrence Treaty. It indicated that he might soon have to have Leaders Robinson and Byrns on the carpet for a heart-to-heart...
Wine, Beer and Champagne bring up the tail end of the list but have been completely outclassed by their stronger rivals. Wine sales total a mere six, while Beer has a meagre sum of three to its credit. Scared away by the cost of Champagne, students have only made two purchases of the "Nectar of the Gods," in the two months since repeal. Port and Sherry head the list of wines and in the Champagne division "Heldsick" and "Chateau Rheims" divide the two points...
...pitfalls of bureaucracy, Pound proceeds to include selections from such poets as William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, Basil Bunting, T. S. Eliot and himself. These selections show the effect of a thoroughly deracinated culture upon some poets, for tradition must have stronger ties than recondite allusions to forgotten epics and obscure quotations from moth-eaten manuscripts in Continental archives. L. Z.'s notes provide some elucidation of the passages from the "XXX Cantos," but there is still not enough clarity for the plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis Aragon, in the translation...
...Herbert Hoover's philosophy that American recovery waited on World recovery. It was Franklin Roosevelt's answer that American recovery will produce World recovery, or at any rate that a stronger domestic economy would fit us for the trade enlargements that would come out of World recovery...