Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed by a wide margin to nominate Candidate Heffelfinger. But they did switch enough votes to him from Candidate Coleman to permit Candidate Nolan to capture the nomination and the election which followed last week. It was a sorry business?the Administration's man being accidentally stepped on by potent members of the Administration...
Universally disregarded, the nine-mile limit has been a potent weapon for the police to hold over fractious drivers and parties to street accidents. Last week Prague taxi drivers and chauffeurs staged an effective protest...
...with far less convincing effect. John Carter was a virile, mighty halfback at the University. But in later, married life he contracted influenza which left him obsolete as a proper husband. Considerate of his wife's resulting deprivations, he persuades her to allow him to introduce Tom Bradford, potent theatrical manager...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
...finishing touches were being applied to his style ? a short left hook which many called vicious; the dempseyesque "weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever he returns to his Fatherland...