Word: strongly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly.* I agree with Shuman that you fellows have been chumps on this big name business." ¶ Publisher-Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas (Topeka Daily Capital) pleaded for the maintenance of strong editorial pages. Editorials, he declared, exert a potent influence upon the governmental functions of the nation. ¶ After three days of speechmaking and conferring, and a visit to President and Mrs. Hoover at the White House, the editors trooped to Manhattan for two meetings this week more important than their...
...Toombs of Memphis, Tenn., reported the known data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...
...chief churches.* Over the Bridal Door of fashionable St. Thomas he placed two lovers' knots in Gothic tracery, one of them cleverly modeled to reveal a dollar sign. Great was the resulting furor. Sedate parishioners still deny that the sign is there. Architect Goodhue was mercurial, head strong, prone to sudden anger but fundamentally affectionate, modest, shy. His beliefs were unorthodox, his moral scruples of painful intensity. His ashes now rest in a magnificent tomb in the Chapel of the Intercession. On the surface carved in bas-relief by Lee Lawrie is his image lying in state like...
...Thomas Hays of Sullivan, Ind. ; by Will H. Hays, 49, of Manhattan, famed cinema-arbiter, U. S. Postmaster-General in the Harding cabinet. Grounds: incompatibility. They were married in 1902, have been separated for several years. Mr. Hays asked custody of Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory...
Defeating the strong Columbia outfit by a 5 to 4 score, the University tennis team triumphed over its second New York opponent of the week Saturday on the Divinity Courts. Here as in the N. Y. U. match, the greater than average strength of the players in the last three positions of the line-up was the decisive feature of the contest Saturday when Harvard won all the singles matches except the first alid the third and lost the first two of the doubles...