Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Water Power. "New York State is probably the richest State in the Union in natural power sources. . . . If private enterprise, as has been suggested, can borrow the money to develop these great resources, what is there to prevent a public corporation from doing the same thing?" Governor Smith recalled that since 1919 he had been fighting to carry out the state-control water power policy first enunciated (in 1907) by Governor Charles Evans Hughes...
...remove from office upon proper proof being presented, any public official charged with laxity in enforcement of the law." But he repeated: "Law enforcement must of necessity begin with arrest. Too many misinformed people look for detailed enforcement from the head rather than from the root of police power...
...that the interests of Japan and America are conflicting. The loss of our silk trade with America alone would paralyze Japan. I maintain that the two great Pacific nations must be mutually friendly. The same applies to the Soviet Union, which is now retaking its place as a world power...
...William, Emerson Ritter, University of California zoologist and president of Science Service, declared: "When the idea of emergence is applied to racial as well as to individual development, there is left no trace of doubt about the adequacy of the creative power of the natural order to produce man, not only with all his physical, but with all his spiritual attributes...
...virulent, the other relatively harmless. The presence of the virulent types in the blood incites some agent (its nature yet unknown) to dissociate the virulence, leaving the germs in their mild form. This gentle type the body cells & fluids can easily destroy. It is the presence of that dissociating power, Dr. Soule believes, that renders people immune to disease, rather than any specific germicidal activity of the body fluids...