Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explain President Hoover's sudden precipitation of so explosive an issue at such a ticklish time, observers came to a combination of conclusions. Apparently this move was part of the new Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence...
Faced by Laborite Lang's advice, game Sir Philip Game refused to take it. So might George V have refused Mr. Scullin last week (see p. 17). In London the King (through the Times) defended his yielding course as the stronger, held that to have defied Mr. Scullin would have been "weaker...
...utilized the rays proceeding toward the electrons' source. These rays are not so intense as those proceeding away from the electronic beam. The source of their generation is in an inaccessible position making it difficult to localize the X-rays. Dr. Olshevsky found that by using only the stronger X-rays which pass through the target and armoring the rest of the tube, he obtained a safer and more precise piece of apparatus...
...when a representative of the late famed John R. McLean, founder and publisher of the Enquirer, paid $420,000 at private auction for the limping Commercial Tribune. For two decades the McLean interests operated both papers, strategically covering the adherents of both major parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served to protect the thriving Enquirer against invasion of the morning field by outside competition- possibly Hearst. Year ago shrewd General Manager William F. Wiley contracted for United Press and Universal Service to augment the Enquirer's Associated Press franchise...
...life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however, she retires to a New England cottage to write her reminiscences, get them off her mind. Then she will go some other place, do something else...