Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diameter have been molded from Haveg, a phenol-aldehyde. Textiles can be impregnated with plastics to stop their creasing. Dr. Ellis believes that "the synthetic resin dwelling house is fast approaching realization," and that "resins made from urea & formaldehyde possess several advantages over those from phenol & formaldehyde. They are stronger, lighter in color, more resistant to darkening under the influence of light...
...officers it should not make, but I do think that in the new era we must get away from an exclusive investment or collateral lending policy and return to a basis of commercial lending. The period of fear is gone. The hysteria is past." To the convention with stronger language-language much less attuned to bankers' sensibilities-came R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, big-nosed politico-industrialist from Texas. Said he: "Hoarders of available credit are little better than hoarders of currency. You are afraid of a recurrence of conditions through which we have just passed...
...Washington. Retorted the Brothers Ridder in their Dispatch: "The Federal Government itself has recently found it necessary to let out many thousands of employes. Many marginal concerns have been going out of business since the start of the Depression. The net result will be fewer business institutions but stronger and better ones...
...looks as if the College dining halls would serve nothing stronger than milk this fall. According to Massachusetts' hastily drawn law regulating the sale of beer, the 3.2 beverage cannot be sold to anyone under 21, which rules out most undergraduates. While the law is universally ignored in the State, it is felt that a College should do no wrong...
...major league game, Carl Hubbell pitched a no-hit game against Pittsburgh. Lazy and solemn in action, particularly fond of a "screw-ball" which breaks sharply down and away from batters, Pitcher Hubbell thinks he has improved since then. Says he: "I have learned a lot ... and I feel stronger. It takes quite a while to learn how to pitch big-league baseball...