Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the British ruling classes are predominantly Church of England folk, the dilemma faced by George V is thus presented by his most potent subjects and cannot be ignored...
However, one fact opens a narrow path to Royalty between Scylla and Charybdis, namely that slightly more than half the population of the United Kingdom do not belong to the Church of England. It is this majority which (although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...
Upon resuming private life to attend to his interests, Mr. Herrick continued so politically potent that he twice declined to become Secretary of the Treasury, when offered that post by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Finally President Taft found a plum to tempt "the man from Cleveland." Would he accept the U. S. Ambassadorship to France? Mr. Herrick would?but for a strange, sound reason?at that time, 1912, his hobby was industrial credits, and he deemed the methods of the Credit Fonder of France the most advanced and worthy of study...
...prices, markets, territories. Shell is rival of Standard of N. Y. and the powerful Standard of New Jersey (a separate concern whose attitude in the controversy is not yet clear) for oil control of the world. The price war may foreshadow a far reaching, dangerous disagreement with jealous, potent British commercial interests...
...conspicuous. Author Simpson nearly cracks a harder nut than the one Author Kennedy so easily pried apart. The ties that bind her twins are not such simple ones of sympathy and affection; her tragedy, confused with fortune tellers, horoscopes, telepathic visions is a more subtle, more bitter but less potent mixture...