Word: strongly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale Ends Strong...
...presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would now get behind a strong push to form a Daladier cabinet of the "moderate centre," excluding the Socialists...
President Lowell replied to President Angell with a gravity that almost became emotional. He told his visitor to hold high the Yale-Harvard brand. Said he: "I am a great admirer of Yale. . . . Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an older man than you. I shall be gone long before you. I earnestly hope that whatever you plan may come to fruition. When I am gone, any improvements which you make I know will benefit no less the institution where I was nurtured...
...decision was handed down in a case brought by Strong Publishing Co., publishers of the Chicago Daily News, against the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Said the Daily News: $220,806.78 excess taxes had the News paid from 1919 to 1921 because the Commissioner had refused to consider the News's Associated Press membership, the News's circulation, the News's "good will" as tangible property...
...Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus...