Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinks Pasha will continue to draw a salary and expense account of $60,000 per year from the Egyptian Treasury. He is nominally employed by fat King Fuad, in that monarch's interest. Actually his duties are to see that the Egyptian Army does not become potent...
...hills gave sanctuary to horse-thieves, cattle-rustlers and all manner of "wanted" men with blood on their hands and prices on their heads. Now the hills are subdued and subdivided, and populous with tourists. The gasoline station has supplanted the wigwam and the can-opener is more potent than the Colt...
...Made potent with money of which he needs give no accounting, he performs miracles of feeding, healing, etc. He conducts six short Sunday services, preaching no sermons, at early and late hours so that his people may be out of doors on their holy day. He holds confessional, informally, in his study. His annual report deals not with attendances, collections or membership rolls, but with community improvements or needs which are no more churchly than secular since...
...will come the national campaign for U. S. Presidency, that Republican, Democratic and independent politicians will badger him for support. The president of the A. M. A. is chief of 94,000 of the 150,000 physicians and surgeons in the U. S. His favor is potent in nation affairs...
...what paper would thus dare to flout rich, potent, organized hat makers? Yet hat making (especially straw hat making) is a leading Italian industry...