Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power stepped, last week, the first so-called "Labor" Cabinet of Norway, a group of Socialist and Communist statesmen whose political complexions are if not red extremely pink. Their first act was to propose that military training shall be abandoned this year, and that the State shall undertake a national monopoly to buy and distribute grain. Has Norway then "gone Red?" To know her people is to understand how laughable is such a suggestion...
...heritage from sturdy Vikings. Therefore since the Socialist and Communist parties achieved between them 61 of the 150 seats in the Storting, at the elections of last Fall, they have been given an opportunity, which flowered last week, of expounding and testing their theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand are a group of enlightened Conservatives who are adding to the 61 pink votes their own and thus giving the new Cabinet a slim majority. As Premier the pinks have put forward former Speaker of the Storting, Christopher Hornsrud, veteran...
...find-four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...
Lawrance developed a sporting interest in racing automobiles. With two classmates, he built the BLM cars which experts said were efficient and powerful, but which did not win the Vanderbilt Cup races. Then he studied three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, learning more about airplanes than art. During the War he was assigned by the Navy to research work in the Aircraft Engine Division, where he produced the three-cylinder, 60-horse-power, air-cooled Lawrance motor. This motor was the forerunner of the famed Wright J5 Whirlwind, designed in 1921, taken over by the Wright...
...tenth largest of the U. S. steel group,* but not yet is it to be guided by a woman. "Young Jim," who had bucked and reared under a trusteeship, had fashioned a trust bridle for his widow. She may sell her steel shares; she cannot vote them. That power lies with the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland and John H. Watson Jr., elected last week president of the corporation...