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Word: power (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concluding, she said that psychology was not harming mankind, but was performing a tremendous service. "The psychologist gives man power to cope with the spiritual world, as science has given it to the physical universe. Man should find truth and not avoid it, because he does not dare to face it. Knowledge alone is power, and truth alone can make us free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMAN PREACHER RAPS COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Budget. Fiscal reform accompanied administrative under the Smith regime. Governor Smith was presently to submit to the Legislature his state's first Executive Budget, certifying the state's needs "in the order of their importance" as determined by a special bureau. The Legislature had power to reduce, but not increase items, and to add items subject to the Governor's veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith to the U. S. | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...consideration, a suggestion from the United States that war be stopped merely by the assumption of moral responsibility was not the thing to make foreign politicians chortle with delight. And when one realizes that unless the Constitution, is amended, that document alone makes illegal any higher check on the power of the President and Congress to make war, the situation seems rather hopeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCRAPS OF PAPER | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

...this way I saved the price of 44 tons of coal, which will keep me in penwipers for the rest of my life. You may be interested to know that I was the one who originated the term 'white coal', which has since been erroneously applied to water power...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

...George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First Reader | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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