Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes far beyond the facts of her narrative into a poetic interpretation of their significance in her characters. Her feeling for heart and flesh is so complete, her understanding of it so thorough and so articulate, that her book, flourishing a rich and rhythmic language, seldom loses its acute power. The Author, a native of Kentucky whither her ancestors voyaged with Daniel Boone, graduated in 1921 from the University of Chicago, where she had shared the young literary enthusiasms
Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...
...relate the drug's use, which the New York Times reported: "It can be applied to the skin and even to the tongue without burning and can be swallowed. More amazing still, it can even be injected into the blood stream, whereas few substances having any real antiseptic power can be injected into a vein without causing death." The New York Herald Tribune quoted Sir Alfred Mond: "Monsol is derived by a new process from the oils of certain coals, and not only is non-irritant but is non-poisonous...
...Instead the time has been taken up by trivial and irrelevant matters, with the evident intention of prolonging the trial until the Superintendent's term expires in February. "In the meantime Chicago has no Superintendent of Schools. The President of the Board has usurped the Superintendent's powers, and the schools are being run without the professional direction which the law requires." Shrewd, they added a paragraph which their rambunctious Mayor William Hale Thompson would understand: "We have become convinced that the present situation is a real crisis. It concerns a million parents -all voters-with enough power...