Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought they did, in the Senator's wetness. He is a much too forthright gentleman to have concealed his personal convictions on the Wet side. There he stands with Senators Edge of New Jersey and Reed of Pennsylvania, and National Committeeman J. Henry Roraback of Connecticut. Though long potent in G. O. P. councils, all are now most inconspicuous in the Hoover movement with the exception of Senator Moses, who had to fight for the place he did get. If Hoover is elected with Republican Dryness a dominant issue, the Moses record as a Wet might even interfere with...
...when the bolter is out of office. Mr. Owen, part Cherokee Indian, is mostly Virginia patrician. He was born and educated in Virginia. He went to Oklahoma, with which State his name has long been connected, when he was still young and the region was a Territory. He grew potent, first as an Indian agent, then as one of Oklahoma's first U. S. Senators (1907-25). As a member of the Senate Finance Committee he helped frame the Federal Reserve and Farm Loan Acts. His horizon was widened by his experience on the Senate's Foreign Relations...
...Belgian steamer Elizabethville in the safe of which was locked the entire diamond output of the Congo for 1917, valued at $10,000,000. The Government of His Belgian Majesty has just employed an Italian deep sea diving firm which proposes to raise the safe by means of a potent submarine magnet...
...economy and inflexible refusal to authorize any economic enterprise not considered vital." Clearly the stringency of this Six Point Cycle means that // Duce will not stop short of so-called "Wartime measures" to ensure the fiscal recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring to him, last week, was the fact that Italy's germinal grain fields are now sprouting and flourishing with an activity announced to promise bumper crops. So impetuously potent is the grain, this summer, that demands for agricultural laborers...
...York was in his hopes. Next year he gained it. . . . Able prelates last week mooted as successors to him at York are: Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman, Bishop of Chelmsford; Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Burham; Frank Theodore Woods, Bishop of Winchester; and Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Potent have been the Archbishops of Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent, Aethelbert, was already a Christian and gave Augustine a church at Canterbury, then a seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry...