Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller and Navin form the chief offensive power for the Amherst players. Although they were beaten by Brown on January 14 by a score of 42 to 36, the Providence team had considerable trouble in keeping the two Purple players from gaining a lead in the score...
...school being counted towards the degrees both of that school and of the college. We have never adopted that plan here, because the last two years in college, and most of all the last year, far exceed the earlier ones in value for giving breadth and depth of intellectual power...
Both coaches are planning to develop a better defensive system. The University forwards H. T. Wenner '30 and A W. Slocum '28, with J. N. Barbee '28 at guard and W. H. Green '28 at center from a combination that has proven to have scoring power...
California. The California, largest merchantship (22,000 gross tons) ever built in the U. S. and the only liner driven by electricity, glided into New York Harbor last week to take on stores for her maiden trip to San Francisco. For motive power, fuel oil generates steam, which operates two turbines, which operate two dynamos, which operate two motors, which operate two propeller shafts, which make the ship go. She is vibrationless...
Paul I, son of Catherine, Russia's greatest queen, was crazy cruel with power. Destroying the love of his people at home and the power of Russia abroad, he dug his own grave. Led by Count Pahlen, governor of St. Petersburg, his surrounding servants killed him and reared his son Alexander Tsar in his stead. Pahlen's struggle with his conscience as he moulds the murder of a trusting friend for the salvation of Russia adds the major note of personal conflict...