Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...According to a survey lately published at Harvard University, only 9.06% of the total kilowatt hours of power generated in 1926, was transmitted across State lines. But Inquisitor Walsh would investigate intrastate companies owned by interstate holding companies...
...White House. Down front is Ohio's ponderously handsome Willis. Across the aisle are ruddy Robinson of Arkansas and Missouri's smoldering Reed. Right next to Senator Borah is the thin-lipped Utopian from Nebraska, Senator Norris, whose devotion to Logic is only one or two brain-cell-power less than Senator Borah's. All these candidates were to receive the Borah questionnaire, and perhaps Vice President Dawes as well...
...scrimmage practice in the past four days. The combination of H. T. Wenner '30 and A. W. Slocum '28 at the forward positions, and J. N. Barbee '28 and R. L. Hatch '28 at guard ought to make trouble for the Purple team, as evidenced by the scoring power that the Crimson men showed in some of the recent games...
...important. Most young men who are enthusiastically concerned to become successful teachers, and who may by good fortune possess creative imaginations of their own, will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power to so great a degree. They cannot sincerely believe that the passing of such examinations represents a worthy achievement; they will be unwilling to expend their energies in helping students to succeed in them; and they will refuse to attempt teaching where their chances of effective personal work are so small...
...teacher, English A, as well as the tutorial system, offers opportunities worthy of inquiry. In this first year of college work a man may wield great personal influence over his Freshmen, and it is important that the work be made sufficient appealing to draw those who have the power to exert such an influence. Some motion has already been made to give the instructors a chance to express their own tastes in the particular kind of work they are to teach. In the second half year the various sections of the course pursue specialized lines of study. But, in spite...