Word: strongly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unofficially reported that Crane received the mayoralty for two reasons: 1) He had polled the most votes, 4,405, in the Council election. 2) He gave up his strong bid for the mayoralty in 1947 to break a deadlock in the Council that had lasted for some 1250 ballots and two and a half months...
After Christmas, Ross said, the Yard will be divided into four leagues which will play informal games until the end of the semester in order to shuffle strong and weak teams...
...Strong and Weak Leagues...
Early in February, the Freshman Intramural Athletic Committee will again cut down the Yard into two leagues. This time, however, all the strong teams will be in one league and the weaker ones in another...
...forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns...