Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as active opposition to Soviet aggression is presented as "aggression" by some western socialist leaders, Garry Davis and his ilk will grow and strengthen the forces whose defeat is the very condition of Western survival...
...Anglo-Saxon friends a remarkable [tendency] . . . to theologise on their own account, that is to say, without asking on what biblical grounds one put forward this or that professedly 'Christian' view. They would quote the Bible according to choice . . . according as it appeared to them to strengthen their own view, and without feeling any need to ask whether the words quoted really have in their context the meaning attributed to them...
...20th Century needed a poet (at least) to explain it to itself, and a good place for a 20th Century poet to be born was St. Louis, Mo. Early, Thomas Stearns Eliot left this American heartland to strengthen at Harvard his ancestral New England roots. His output there was conventional verse, but his intake was metaphysics, logic, science and heavy drafts of European and Oriental culture...
...have been in jeopardy. On the other hand, the Democratic victory is likely to lead to farm policies which run strongly counter to the principles of the International Trade Program. Truman will support freer trade and the trade organization which is all to the good; he will probably also strengthen agricultural price supports which carry with them export subsidies for agricultural products. This is certainly hard to reconcile with the trade program...
...College poll was not that Hoover licked F. D. R., 1211 to 395, but that Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, fell only nine votes short of Roosevelt. Still the surprise was not half so significant as the statistical fact that depression and national misery could only serve to strengthen Harvard's faith in the Republican...