Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this trend...
After preliminary experiments it was found that the hour from nine to ten o'clock in the evening was on the whole best suited for determining the strength of the radio signals each night. The broadcasting station, WBBM of Chicago, maintained reliable consistency in power which it transmitted and communicated with the Astronomical Laboratory concerning any departures from normal conditions. The intensity of the signal strength measured is that of the carrier wave which is not apparently affected by the modulations of the program broadcasted...
...Majesty presided as Chairwoman of the Crown Council, despite the presence of Edward of Wales, who had been expected to sit as Chairman. Business before the Council consisted in routine exercise of the authority vested in the Crown. However, since the Council does not possess the King's power of creating peers, the usual...
This salute historic was the first ever accorded by a great power to the new Nationalist President, Chiang Kaishek. Such a salute would have been fired long ago by a German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire...
Shrewd readers of Dr. Broome's words realized that it was not right of the Hearst press to perceive in his tempered statements a sweeping denunciation of Power Trust (public utilities) propaganda. So far Dr. Broome has merely decried propaganda in the school, has refrained from stating whether there was any. In Atlanta, in June, when the National Education Association (known to all educators as N. E. A.), holds its annual conference Dr. Broome will speak more exactly...