Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivers of New England spent last week recovering from their stroke of autumn apoplexy. As they shrank back to normal, the mills that they used to turn, the power plants they used to keep humming, emerged from the flood covered with muck. Winter began to shut down and the muck froze. Much New England industry was crippled for months to come...
California. Some 251,000 San Franciscans registered to elect a mayor. They had had but one mayor since 1912-crisp, greying Mayor James ( Plain Jim of the Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition...
Hugh L. Cooper & Co.-building a vast power system (to be larger than the Muscle Shoals scheme) in Dniep-rostroy, Ukraine...
After this, until Kennard kicked his goal in 1908, the Crimson flaunted over the Blue three times--in 1896, 1898, and 1901. The Harvardians instituted most of the new wrinkles in the games, but Yale had most of the power. The "Deland Flying Wedge" flew in 1892. This strange play was the terror of all comers, but Yale won the game because of involuntary foreign...
...worn theology--the literal interpretation of the Bible. He is ready to agree that theology is essential to religion, but wants a constant religion and a progressive theology! His Religion, he describes as Faith in Life itself,' 'a sovereign insight into Life's meaning,' whatever redeems life from the power of evil, whatever gives it freedom and greatness must be true...