Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President de facto from Jan. 17 to Oct. 30, 1926," and inasmuch as the U. S. sponsored a treaty wherein the Central-American nations agreed to deny recognition to unconstitutional governments, therefore the U. S. could not recognize any administration headed by General Chamorro that might come to power...
...Federal Government which recently raised the salaries of its employes. In this connection other able economists pointed out that Germany is short-sighted in that she does not grasp that raising the standard of wages also raises the standard of living and promotes internal prosperity by increasing the purchasing power of the laboring classes...
...Standard Statistic Co., financial tabulators, last week stirred the stock exchange with their report of the potential power of Mr. Ford. "He has the power to disturb the automobile world, the entire business world," they said...
...Indiana and declined to discuss Indiana's loss and contented himself by saying. "Harvard had the power and once it got the ball was almost certain to score or come mighty near it. But we did." Baker added with a smile, "hold them twice on the two inch line...
...that spontaneity is said to creep into it at times--a rare presence in any organized cheer. Let us instead drill a chorus of bright-clothed acrobats to thrill visitors to Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that we are, beyond a doubt, jolly college boys and full of zest and snap...