Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liverpool. Last fortnight he and some other British ecclesiasts publicly deplored the traditional custom of picturing Jesus Christ as meek & mild. They urged artists to paint Him as "strong and muscular." Said they: "We would not mind if the beard were sacrificed if that would make for a stronger face. People these days are inclined to be irreverent about beards, children particularly so. We want to get rid of sentimentality and substitute virility...
...deposits to be withdrawn. That will save the weaker banks from complete failure, but of course there will be runs on some banks when the reopening comes; others won't be affected greatly. That is why I do not advocate a national unification of all our banks: the stronger would have to bear the weaker; it would be placing a premium on inefficiency...
...their official communique Statesmen Benes, Yevtitch & Titulescu used if possible even stronger language. "In order to mark sharply the transformation of the [Little] Entente into an international community having a distinct personality." they declared, "the three Foreign Ministers have decided that every political treaty of each State of the Entente, every unilateral act changing the existing political situation of one of the Entente States toward an outside State, as well as every economic agreement involving important political consequences require henceforth the unanimous consent of the Council of the Entente...
With the stench of the law suit getting stronger, with Medical Dean David Linn Edsall getting angrier, with President Lowell getting sadder-the Harvard Corporation, hoping to quash the suit, last week pinned up this notice in the Medical School and School of Public Health: "No member of either of these schools should take out for his own profit, or make any profit on, a patent upon any invention or discovery that affects the health of individuals or the public. That if, to protect the public against misuse of the invention or discovery, it is necessary to control...
...beat Communism remains to be seen. Certainly it is less imperialistic than before. General Feng Yu-hsiang wavered in his Christian faith when a missionary defended the shooting of Chinese students by foreigners. "But," says Dr. Jones, "he is climbing back to a living faith and will be stronger when he emerges again, I believe...