Word: strong
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This type of machine would be independent of horizontal flying speed to create pressure under its wings and would be able to land and to start from the roofs of buildings in the heart of a city. This implies the necessity of a motor strong enough to swing a propellor which would lift the machine by sheer strength without the help of the wings. It is in fact the application of the principle laid down by Orville Wright that a kitchen table could fly with sufficient engine power...
...plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship in our domestic problems and foreign relations...
...Princeton University, and the Pastime Athletic Club; the former being the victor in the senior meet for the championship while the two latter were tied for the junior championships. Two clubs who were not represented in these championships last year, but who this year are developing strong teams, are the New York Athletic Club and the Chicago A.A. Both of these clubs express confidence of winning. To oppose them, however, are the B. A. A. and the Meadowbrook Club of Philadelphia which have both developed stronger teams than last year. It is, therefore, expected that the struggle for the senior...
...Jimmy Caesar. Ervine paints three weaknesses which every man must fight; physical coward ice, life in dreams rather than in reality and a realization of fault without action to eradicate it. The play makes one weave into it one's own failings. That it why it is so strong...
...Yale faculty ballot on the League of Nations Covenant yesterday resulted as follows: For ratification with mild reservations, 41; ratification with no reservations, 23; ratification with strong reservations, 11; ratification with full Lodge reservations, 4; for the Borah position, none...