Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gross immorality. "He ran his pale eyes over me," declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
...Rasputin faced me and seemed to run me over with his eyes; first my face, then the region of the heart, then again he stared me in the eyes. ... I, speaking literally, felt my own eyes starting out of my head. ... I felt myself confronted by an unknown, tremendous power...
Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
Pregnant with significance was the continued harmony existing, last week, between the Nationalist Government and their great, voluntarily subordinate ally: the Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest personal army in the world. Whether Feng will remain subordinate to the Nationalists, seize power by a coup d'état, or quietly wangle* himself into control of their Government is a question only now beginning to be answered...
Paper. Kimberly-Clark Co. manufactures rotogravure paper for 80% of the newspapers and magazines in North and South America, also controls the Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co., Ltd. (50% of its production is for the N. Y. Times). Last week, the two companies were reorganized under the name of the Kimberly-Clark Corp...