Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Power. Teeth are slightly loose in the jaws. They swivel and play a trifle. They need exercise. Industrious chewing is the best exercise. Most people, who pay attention to their health, know this. Few, however, know that they must put at least 1,700 pounds of pressure into each day's biting, chewing. Dr. Thomas Hartzell of Minneapolis says so. Thorough mastication requires 5,000 pounds of pressure. A person who eats properly uses enough strength daily to lift a 7-passenger motor...
...Mitchell Jr. to Chicago. As every Chicagoan knows, young Banker Mitchell's father had been President of Illinois Trust for nearly 50 years. Deep and abiding was the impression made by the elder Mitchell on U. S. finance. Himself the son of a banker, he became a power not only in Chicago but in Manhattan's Wall Street. His counsel guided such tycoons as George M. Pullman (Pullman cars) and Cyrus H. McCormick (International Harvester...
...copper wars. Bitter and prolonged was the battle over titles between Miner Fritz Augustus Heinze, onetime friend of Miner Clark, and the Amalgamated Copper Co., predecessor of Anaconda. A great tactical advantage passed to Anaconda when it bought the Heinze properties. Gradually, Anaconda became master of Butte, a power in all Montana...
...swear that His Holiness the Pope is Christ's vice-Regent and the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth, and that by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given His Holiness by my Savior, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and governments and they may be safely destroyed...
...pledge myself as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of Columbus to enlighten myself fully upon my duties as a citizen and to conscientiously perform such duties entirely in the interests of my country and regardless of all personal consequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot, to promote reverence and respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs, and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit...