Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...construction of the Authority's Norris Dam. One of the chief leaseholders is none other than Tennessee's loud, egregious Senator George Leonard Berry, who bought them from farmers in the district for an immediate cash consideration of about $1 apiece. But George Berry has been a potent figure in the Roosevelt Administration and when he filed complaints against the TVA for damages on his marble properties, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal, meeting according to custom as a quorum in Chairman Morgan's absence, agreed to have the value of the claims adjudicated by a special "conciliator" instead...
...that many astronomers consider the Expanding Universe may be an illusion, have sought some other cause for the redshift in the spectrum. A decrease in Planck's constant h (energy of light multiplied by its vibration period) might be such a cause. Last year Britain's potent Theorist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac suggested that the gravitational constant and certain others were dependent on t, the age of the universe, and were therefore slowly altering as the universe gets older. Last month in the Physical Review Mathematicians Samuel Sambursky and Max Schiffer of the Hebrew University in Palestine presented...
Last month Bishop Manning enlisted as a potent ally New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who assumed the chairmanship of the campaign and announced that during the Fair he wishes to promote a "great series of Sacred Concerts in the Cathedral." Beamed the bishop: "People elsewhere speak of [New York] sometimes as a place wholly given up to material and worldly interests. But where, I ask, is there any other city in our land whose mayor has come forward with such a proposal as this?" Last week, at a meeting of Mayor LaGuardia's fund- raising...
...Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political rowdies, "The Lance Bearers," killed two members of the Nazi-Fascist Iron Guard caused anti-Semite Goga to be deserted by this potent anti-Semite organization...
Last year another potent Governmental bureau, the Treasury Department, was mightily annoyed to discover that the 14 companies seeking its $2,800,000 tire & tube contracts offered practically identical bids. Threatening to investigate the possibility of collusion,* the Treasury gave a $1,000,000 contract to Sears, Roebuck, which had not bid but whose retail prices were lower even though it bought its tires wholesale from one of the original bidders (TIME...