Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent as the Prophet's beard...
...myriad eyes of teeming, docile Indians turned in mild approval and amaze, last week, upon Mother India's three greatest and most potent sons...
...steersman of All-Indian Congress, potent Pandit Motilal Nehru dwarfed, from a practical standpoint, even the Big-Little Mahatma. As leader of the Swarajist Party in the Legislative Assembly at Delhi, the Pandit is an intensely active and practicing politician. His official status with the British Raj is second only to his unofficial might as President of the Hindu Congress. Grave and deeply read in law, the Pandit is also a mob-kindling orator, and moreover a zealot who gave up his lucrative legal practice in 1920, when Pied-Piper Gandhi piped "Non-Co-operation...
...late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns...
...Commission's dictum was no routine order. It contained many a bombshell. It allotted no additional channels to Radio Corp. of America or to the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Corp. but directed those two most potent applicants to appear for further hearings. Even more surprising was the allocation of 40 channels to the comparatively obscure Universal Wireless Communication...