Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Princeton has chosen the negative of the question decided on for the Yale-Princeton debate-"Resolved, That the power of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is detrimental to the public interest." The debate is to be held in New Haven...
Swift (6) has a tendency to hang at the full reach, swings around his oar and does not get his power on quickly enough...
Richardson (2) has his oar too high off the water, catches late, does not get his power on quick enough, and has a tendency to rush his slide...
...accordance with the system adopted by Dr. Sargent. The points are reckoned as follows: The number of kilos. lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings...
...very bad. It has been the cause of all the evils since 1873. If we should adopt it, how should we ever execute it, and what would be the result? This result would be an overthrow in politics at the next election and the silverites would be in power. Then there would be the free and unlimited coinage of silver...