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Word: power (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your otherwise accurate article on Egypt (TIME, July 30, p. 13) occurs the following: "If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal. . . . For this reason the British Foreign Office has honestly and without hypocrisy proclaimed that control of Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense." Five years' residence in Cairo, and conversations with British officials in many Departments prove to me that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Women (after a sentence for men): "Every woman has a right to ask whether her life, her home, her man's job, her hopes, her happiness, will be better assured by the continuance of the Republican Party in power. I propose to discuss the questions before me in that light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Speech | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Wherefore. "Chemistry is a philosophy working in man's mind, leading him to search for fundamental truth and in the end to power in world .affairs. Science knows no frontiers."-Sir James C. Irvine, acting chancellor of St. Andrews University, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Then this fool stepped back and swung his right against my jaw with every bit of his power. It landed flush, and stiffened me where I stood. Nobody saw the punch but Eddie Eagan who was standing there. And that was the last thing I remembered for two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tunney Out | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Frozen Eggs. Into mighty, meatpacking Armour & Co., there strayed last week the H. J. Keith Co. of Boston, dealers in dried and frozen eggs. Also into the Armour fold came a large interest in Amos Bird Co. of Shanghai, Chinese egg product concern. To become a power in the frozen egg market, Armour & Co. paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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