Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unanimously voted to hold the dinner as near March 25 as possible; to empower the chair to appoint a committee of three who shall make all arrangements for the dinner; and to grant this committee the power to choose definitely the day on which the dinner shall be held. The meeting then adjourned...
Professor Trowbridge has had set up in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory recently a storage battery of great power. It has a voltage of 20,000, or forty times as great as the voltage required to run an electric car. This is probably the most powerful storage battery in the world. Professor Trowbridge employs it in the experiments which he is now conducting to determine the spectrum of hydrogen. It is also used in X-ray experiments, the first use of a storage battery for this purpose...
...case of a disagreement between the members of this committee, it shall have the power to call upon a third person to settle the particular question in dispute...
...offensive has still less weit. Judge Holmes, in speaking of the Harvard men who fought for their country said that "the greatest qualities after all are those of the man, not those of the gentleman." Backed by this eminent authority I protest with all the emphasis in the power of one who clings fondly to the few remaining occasions in Harvard life which call for a display of sentiment, that the Tree scrimmage should no be abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating" to the few people who happen to stand...
...Yale Prom., either the boxes should not be built or the dance should be given up." In effect this merely affirms what the communication this morning says that "the principle objection to it seems to be that of expense." But yesterday's editorial suggested that it was in the power of the Committee to conduct the exercises without great additional expense; and economical plans, given in today's communication, show that the increase in expense, caused by the dance, need not be great...