Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected unified boards of directors last spring. The British scheme is a "gentleman's agreement." The Britons frankly admitted that one of the most important objects was to fight German, French, Dutch competition in the North Atlantic. Whether this "gentleman's agreement" would grow into something considerably stronger, they refused to prophesy. Immediate results: next week only one ship of the six "rationalized" lines will leave Liverpool for the U. S., only two will sail from Southampton, only one from Glasgow. Four British ships per week will leave the Port of New York, instead of the twelve that...
...laude Even with the increase in membership it is impossible to bring into the chapter all the men who receive a magna From this it is evident that the scholastic standard of the Harvard Chapter has not been Towered by the larger number of members rather there is a stronger incentive than before to aim for the degree magna cum laude...
Harvard was gallant in defeat, stronger than it had ever been in any game this year. Although outrushed, the Crimson made this up with an overwhelming superiority in the aerial game, gaining almost three times as much by passes as the Wolverines. But the visitors had a decided scoring punch which they unleashed at the proper moment and which eradicated any supremacy which Harvard might have shown up to that time...
...Jersey City, N. J., John Turkess, 26, wrote a goodbye note to his wife, left $49.40 for funeral expenses, stuffed the door and window cracks of his room, turned several gas jets wide open and lay down to die. As the fumes became stronger he decided to light a last cigaret. The explosion blew out the side of the house, bruised, burned but did not kill John Turkess...
...obscure any question of vital interest to the voter. It is no wonder that politics as a vocation is rather unpopular among American college graduates. If only for the reason of some definite set of principles to uphold and fight for, the radical and progressive minorities offer much stronger attractions to the politically minded than do those amorphous conglomerations labelled Democratic and Republican...