Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This period in which we are living today is a period of inflation--a huge bubble. Sooner or later that bubble must burst. Let us, then, strengthen our foundations and principles, so that we may have something firm and solid beneath us, rather than strive, by unproved theories and sweet-sounding phrases to prick the bubble and let ourselves fall into--what? This is what we want to find out. What is there in store for this country should we adopt Socialistic or Soviet doctrines...
...That is why for their own selfish interest, these foreigners discourage opera in English, discourage American singers, deny to young American voices a fair chance, and seek only to strengthen the strangle hold that aliena now have upon the production of opera in this country, where opera pays the largest rewards of any country in the world...
...University football squad was augmented yesterday by one new candidate for the line, W. G. Brocker '20. Brocker has been in the service until this week, when he re-entered College. He played right guard on his Freshman eleven, and his return will materially strengthen the line-up of the University team...
...will report next year at the call for track men, prospects for a successful season are bright. Ten of the returning members of this year's team have won their "H's" in this or previous seasons and eight members of the 1922 squad are expected to strengthen the team materially...
June 3 has been set as the date on which the soldier-athletes now in this country will sail for France to strengthen the team which will represent the United States in the interallied games to be held at Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, from June 22 to July 6. Col. Joseph H. Thompson, who was sent here by General Pershing to take abroad the team selected by the Amateur Athletic Union, has decided upon this early date of departure in order that the contingent may reach France as soon as possible to complete the preliminary trials at Joinville...