Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goal of the government program, which is being conducted in cooperation with colleges and universities throughout the country, is to stimulate the growth of private flying, and to provide a reservoir of trained pilots to strengthen the national defense in case of emergency...
...Cale Young Rice won a roller-skating championship. At 16 he captained an undefeated baseball team. Says he: "I am sure these small triumphs served to strengthen the muscles of my will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . ." Poet Rice's story of his climb up Parnassus has as many alibis as there were slips on its slopes. Thus his attempts eo crash Broadway with verse dramas were steady failures because of "resentment against the frequently made assertion that I was 'America's foremost poet...
Queen Caroline's real genius, however, lay in the unobtrusive management of her pompous, stupid consort. When they came to the throne in 1727, she teamed with fat, jovial Sir Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister, to keep the King in line and to strengthen his Stuart-threatened dynasty. She even gave the benefit of her wiles to the miniaturist Frederick Zincke, whom she secretly warned "to make the King's picture young, not above 25." Flattered, George bade the painter "employ all your time in pictures for me, for I will take them...
...national defense loan was floated, and the French Army opened its ranks to foreigners who wish to pledge during peace that they will fight "for the duration of the war." The Premier called a meeting of the Cabinet, which approved "measures to strengthen the action of France and to end any misconception of the firmness of her resolution." Then appeared a very incongruous announcement that Germany and France were about to initial an agreement to increase trade...
Teachers must strengthen "their connection with organized labor as the greatest force opposed . . . to any destruction of that intellectual freedom out of which our educational system has grown," Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English, told 400 Massachusetts educators Saturday...