Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining...
...entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but with no chance to vote for or against individual candidates. Rejection of the entire list is considered outside the realm of practical politics, and the new system amounts to a scheme for maintaining Fascismo permanently in Power...
...returns showed that the 65 Conservative seats in the Andra Kammaren (Lower Chamber) had increased to 73, while Socialist members diminished from 90 to 75. Thus the minority Cabinet of Prime Minister Carl Gustaf Ekman, Leader of the small People's Party, continues to hold the balance of power...
...plainly designed less as a model of intelligent drama than as a means of bringing their old friend before the footlights in praiseworthy poses. On the stage Jack Dempsey is an honest prize-fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack...
...ever made a long cross country flight in any type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter. Two small wings projected from it, and it had a propeller, but the huge four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...