Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After repeating his Water Power stand) "Now, I have made that perfectly clear. . . . I ask Mr. Hughes to ask his candidate the same question that he asked...
...Water power, plus farm relief, minus Volstead modification, was the pro-Smith formula of Senator Norris of Nebraska (TIME, Nov. 5). He followed through with it strongly last week throughout the Northwest. He converted his Dry wife but earned the pious fury of the Anti-Saloon League...
...simple: one end of a magnet is positive, the other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...
...raises considerable doubt as to that former altitude, these present depths. And in a sound exposition of business expansion, Julius Klein recalls that an ancient Periclean law gave each Athenian the right to own five slaves, whereas every inhabitant of the U. S. today has at his disposal the power equivalent of 150 slaves. Human happiness lies in using the machine without worshiping it. Brilliantly, Bertrand Russell predicates the only remedy for science as not less, but more science?applied to human nature...
...education, alas, so much is expected that the distracted modern university publishes a catalogue quite as alluring as Sears Roebuck's. Everett Dean Martin deplores an educational system which, pandering to a materialistic age, offers equal "credit" for a course in Aristotle's Ethics and another in High Power Salesmanship. But the fault lies not so much with the age as with the perennial lack of a consistent philosophy of education...