Word: forcefullness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vogues of 1938 (Walter Wanger) can be chalked up as a minor Hollywood triumph on two counts: 1) it is the most enticing example of Technicolor yet produced; 2) it has apparently found a formula for transforming the fashion show from a boring newsreel short to a full-length revue...
¶ Plan to rent old warships to South America was launched in the form of a Senate resolution by Chairman David I. Walsh of the Naval Affairs Committee who read the Senate a letter from Secretary Hull explaining it as an extension of the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy. The proposal...
Comments on some of the men were: Lake, McIlwain, Langer -- brilliant scholars and lecturers. Karpovich: now examiner, excellent tutor. Baxter. Forceful lecturer, sometimes gives opinions as facts; scholar, good tutor. Ferguson: scholar; dull but good lecturer with small groups; better on Greece than Rome. Haring: scholar; covers large field well...
For the difficult key post of Minister of the Interior (controlling the national police force and secret service) Dr. Negrin chose young, forceful Basque Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the...
The future Congressman was born (1895) in San Antonio, a stone's throw from the Alamo, the eleventh and last of his family. After a year at V. M. I. he finished college at the University of Texas, took three years of law in one and was admitted to...