Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew on the city, sent...
...Englishman believes that the Socialist party is stronger now than the Labor party was at the beginning. As the Americans are accustomed to quick and radical changes, he feels that it will take but a short time for Socialism to progress in this country...
...scoreless tie, and Cornell managed to beat Niagara 7-0. The Bates game with Yale and the valiant fight that the Dave Morey coached team made at New Haven did much to curtail the criticism this year. Sports writers were agreed that on the actual play Bates was stronger...
...Harvard Athletic Association does not believe in scheduling opponents who are not stronger in the way of man power than was Buffalo, but at the time the game was arranged almost two years ago, it was the Athletic Committee's understanding that Buffalo would be as strong as the usual New England college teams with whom Harvard opened its schedules. The Harvard viewpoint, however, on small college teams opening the varsity football season, when they are of the caliber of Bates, New Hampshire, Maine, or other New England colleges, is that such games are good sport for the players...
...Katz became stronger in Paramount. Lasky and Zukor lost caste but Zukor kept his figurehead presidency. Lasky's last ace was his long-term contract, said to give him $9,000 a week. The final squabbles evidently concerned the cost of buying in this gold-plated contract. Before he left on his leave of absence, Lasky had given Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument...