Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast territories acquired by conquest in the new world. * * * It was an opinion, perhaps as ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded to the pope * * * titles acquired upon the supposition that it was rightful cannot now be disturbed * * *." Mayor of Mobile vs. Eslava (Ala. 1839) 9 Porter...
Just as General Gomez came before Venezuela's oil boom so he came after General Cipriano Castro. General Castro's name is the key that unlocks the cipher of President Gomez's enigmatic Power...
...punching at the White House, flooded the feast with light. President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. made the opening address, which was broadcast to 2,300,000 policy holders whose insurance totals $6,800,000,000. Said he: "Beauty is the natural handmaiden of power and power is the dominant note in modern American architecture. Here, as in cathedral architecture, power fails without beauty and beauty works through her allies, color, mass and symmetry...
...classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight, to eat well, to take to bed at the first signs of malaise. And statisticians were left to calculate the enormous resultant loss in productive power...
...Shredded Wheat had progressed from a Nebraska hotel to a Worcester factory; the next step was the move to Niagara Falls. This transition resulted from the enterprise of William B. Rankine, who had built power houses on the Niagara River but had no factories to utilize the power of the Falls. Mr. Rankine visited Mr. Perky, persuaded him to move to Niagara. Here Mr. Perky built a two million dollar plant, which, however, got him into financial difficulties. Thereupon Mr. Rankine interested various capitalists from New York City, Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the formation of a ten million dollar...