Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the contest state that each college flying club will be allowed to enter one plane and three pilots. The planes will be of a standard speed and power class which will be determined later...
...Origin of the Great Power Austria-Hungary," Professor Pribram, Harvard...
...whose masses enjoy secondary education in greater proportion than in any other country on the globe, the college man shrinks to numerical insignificance. The college curriculum is an Aeneas riding on the shoulders of the high school curriculum, which must adapt itself to college entrance demands, and so loses power in serving the quantitatively greater need...
...know why you all hate Tony. He's the only American in Berkenmeer. The rest of us are a bunch of decadent colonials clinging to a transplanted civilization as alien to America as cricket and crumpets. . . . Wheat, iron, coal, power-and we are still living in a world of maple-syrup and whale-oil! . . . Maybe they'll settle it by putting us on reservations like the Indians. They might set New England aside...
...GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON -Charles Merz - John Day ($3). Everybody come quick, jump aboard, see a lotta things you never saw before, forget you're a shoe clerk, play cowboy an' injun, make yourself a hero, have secret power -everybody's doing it, follow the crowd, you can't go wrong...