Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn; to be President of the Yonkers Electric Light & Power Co. Mr. Sloan now heads five light & power companies in Greater New York, which form the second largest public utilities unit in the U. S., exceeded only by American...
...particles bumped into each other and many larger particles. Larger particles kept colliding until planetesimals developed. Planetesimals smashed into each other in such quantities that eventually Sun planets, including the Earth, acquired huge mass and the power to hold great satellites, like the Moon, in their own orbits...
...stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral bodies...
...expounders, and practitioners upon whom the world is absolutely dependent for the preservation and advancement of that organized knowledge which we call Science. It is their seeing eye that discloses, as Carlyle said, 'the inner harmony of things; what Nature meant.' It is they who bring the power and the fruits of knowledge to the multitude who are content to go through life without thinking and without questioning, who accept fire and the hatching of an egg, the attraction of a feather by a bit of amber, and the stars in their courses as a fish accepts...
Buddha tossed aside wealth and temporal power that he might attain victory over old age, death, disease, sorrow. His inheritance was the ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy...