Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts of political propagandists to make the Spaniard feel like a citizen have failed. He feels like a man. ... It follows that the social structure of Spain is bound to be lax, like that of a body the several members of which are stronger than the force of cohesion which keeps them together. . . . No one who knows Spain can have failed to be struck by the impressive amount of individual effort lost in activities at cross purposes or, even worse, in vacua...
...truly done his work through the week, I see no reason for denying him his justly deserved earnings. It gives a chap something to look forward to; he sees life in a different light, and thus the days will be more cheerful and he will develop a better and stronger Hebron spirit than in the other...
Jordan's Men. In the early days at Stanford, pioneering Dr. Jordan said: "The problem of life is not to make life easier but to make men stronger." One of his first students at Stanford in 1891 was lean, shy young "Bert" Hoover, just down from Oregon. Next year came 6-ft.-4-in., 17-year-old "Rex" Wilbur of Riverside, Calif.? The friendship begun at college between these two?like the friendship between Co-eds Lou Henry and Marguerite Blake whom they later married ?was to live long. Dr. Jordan was to be specially conscious of Bert...
...Holmes died (in 1929) the Young Fellow was expected to be present in a social capacity for the Monday "at homes." In the evening Mrs. Holmes would sometimes read to her husband while he played solitaire. Now it is the Young Fellow who reads. When Justice Holmes was stronger there was daily at 5 p. m. a 40-minute walk, Young Fellow and tall, fine old jurist flourishing his Irish blackthorn stick, talking of all things, drawing out his young protegee...
...choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid boy, his youth was unhappy, and he would have taken the course of least resistance into the Church had not a stronger-minded friend rescued him. Then came the War, and once or twice it looked as though that would settle Ferdinand's hash. But he came through, with wounds, decorations and a reputation among radicals because he had refused to execute three soldiers. In the turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand...