Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last Command" Emil Jannings plays the role of the Grand Duke Sergius Alexandria, own cousin to the Czar, and commander of the Russian Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without...
...drilling this week to improve their attack which was below par in the game with Amherst last Friday. The Crimson team lost the contest in the closing minutes of the game. At the opening of the game, the quintet looked as if it had regained the speed and scoring power that had brought victory to Harvard in the games following the Christmas recess...
...merit of Protestant churches is their individualism; balancing this merit and springing from it, is the lack of central power, an effective and coherent administrative instrument. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in a sense, supplies this want. Last week, while its representatives were meeting in Cleveland, a measure sponsored by the Federal Council and the Interna-tiona] Council of Religious Education came before the New York State Legislature at Albany. This was a bill of incorporation for the Religious Education Foundation, an organization
...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
Watching Lloyd Hahn run in the Hunter Mile race, Peltzer said, "Hahn remains somewhat of a mystery to me. He always wins with plenty to spare, and no one knows just how much power he has. He seems to have a boundless supply of energy and stamina, and until he races Nurmi, Wide, myself and the rest of the runners at the Olympics no one will know just how great...