Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale will be insufferably weak in the broad jump with Read Murphy as its only prospect. Manager Mel Chapin will pair with Woody Rich in the high jump and they promise to be the real dark horses on the Ell squad. If Rich's ankle regains its former strength he may pull a real surprise...
With their main strength lying in the light weights, the Sailors will have an advantage over the Crimson, because injuries have put two of the three Harvard lightweights out of action. Ted Schoenberg will be the only light regular to wrestle, with Harry Blaine taking Jim Redmon's place at 128 and Louis Daly replacing Ray Stone...
...contribution has been to try to free choked channels of trade, "keep the lines of peace open," prepare for post-war dislocation. U. S. strength: the "tremendous picture of the possibilities of peaceful life" that the U. S. offers. U. S. weakness : that U. S. economy, if not readjusted internationally, will no longer mesh with war-created economics overseas. The answer: "To you all things are possible; all questions have answers; all wrongs can be righted; all hopes can be fulfilled." Specific Berle prods to youthful imaginations: international health units working together in devastated areas; international transport pools moving goods...
...poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned soldier, served for the last year of the Boer War as a trooper in the Rand Mounted Rifles. He stayed there for two more years, learning about colonial...
Those souls that hate the strength that mine...