Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first by that of its Belgian founder, M. Georges Nagelmackers of Brussels and Liege. He had visited the U. S. in the '60s and confessed himself "frappe" (struck) by "les services de wagons-lits" already operating there. Returning to Belgium, he enlisted the financial aid of such potent backers as the late King Leopold II (of Belgian Congo infamy) and founded the original Wagons-Lits firm in 1873. Previously he had begun and he continued all his life negotiations with the states of Europe, touching the installation and operation on their lines of his sleeping cars...
This time Paul von Hindenburg sent to Wilhelm Marx a letter virtually demanding that the Chancellor's party (Catholic Centrists) compose its differences over the so-called "school bill" with the People's Party, potent faction of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. These two parties?Catholic, Popular?comprise the main support of the coalition cabinet. They are quarreling over legislation designed to abolish Catholic instruction in the public schools...
...every other sport showed a deficit. Crew cost Yale the most, $65,618; the Gun Club, least expensive, was a $651 luxury. Visiting teams pocketed a third of the huge football monies. The rest went toward promoting adequate padding and feed for Yale athletes, toward athletic education, toward that potent plank in every college sales talk, "Athletics...
...centre of Fall River, Mass., the Stevens Manufacturing Co. and the American Printing Co. lead the way. Just before the fire last week (see p. 11) the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers' Association announced that all its members had put into effect a 10% wage cut. This included such potent firms as the Algonquin Printing Co., American Linen Co., Davis Mills, King Philip Mills, Lincoln Manufacturing Co., Sagamore Manufacturing Co., Granite Mills...
...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...