Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past two years, Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has been perfecting a battery for electrical discharges. It is now the most powerful apparatus of its kind in the world, and has already been used in several investigations of the x-ray. It is the only battery strong enough to send a discharge through an x-ray tube; all other batteries send the spark around the tube. It has been used repeatedly to show the skeleton of the hand. An idea of its power can be had from the fact that it has a voltage...
...almost, if not actually, in its hands. Now next Saturday will be the final game of the season, and in that game lies the chance to redeem Harvard's reputation. The team is well coached. It showed at times on Saturday that it had much more than average power. Against Pennsylvania then let the play be of the best all the time, and when the instant comes at which success is to be won, there must be no alternative. May it never again be recorded that Harvard reached an opponents four yard line without scoring...
...Resolved, That the Hasty Pudding Club most heartily endorses the plan to provide a University Club at Harvard, and hereby declares its intention to do all in its power to further that object...
...Resolved, That the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon warmly approves the establishment of the proposed University Club, and will do all in its power to further the project...
Question: "Resolved, That the sole executive and appointive power should be vested in the mayors of cities; and that his appointments should require no confirmation...