Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increasing the membership of any organization is indicative of one of two trends. Either the group is slipping down hill and needs reinforcements, new blood, and the strength of numbers, or it is coming to have additional value and power which a slight loss in exclusiveness does not affect. In the particular case of Phi Beta Kappa, however, there is a third element in the increase in eligible candidates...
...their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That is undoubtedly a brain test Whether it is the ideal test of brain power is another matter...
...joint-stock land banks. These are private enterprises, similar to the Federal Land Banks, slightly more restricted in power, chartered by the Federal Farm Loan Board...
Members of Britain's nether classes often refer collectively to those above as "Them." Enviously they know that a man child born to "Them" can take the soft path that leads through Oxford or Cambridge and then on to Place & Power. Such a scion of "Them" is David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, 23, who ran through Cambridge as a track star, and was appointed last week a Justice of the Peace at Peterborough...
...Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic. . . . Kum Ming, who was a poet and a wise ruler, destroyed his airplane just before his death for the protection of mankind. . . . He had bombed and destroyed many of his enemies in the air; but he was a poet and remorse overcame...