Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classes went through preliminary dummy practice before the scrimmaging began between two teams from each class squad. The Seniors showed far more power and coordination than either the Juniors or Sophomores, the 1930 backfield being unable to get away for any consistent gains, largely because of poor passing from the center...
...Orient as a vast potential market for our products and investments. We are captivated by the fact that there are more than six times as many in these regions as there are in the United States. But we are inclined to overlook the present insignificance of their buying power, their extreme poverty, and the political, social, and economic difficulties that stand in the way of rapid progress...
...split occurred soon after General Chiang Kai-Shek captured Shanghai. An attempt was made to wrest power from the victorious general who evaded the move by setting up an independent regime at Nan king and denouncing the government at Hankow as bolshevist...
...accused. The play (by Bayard Veiller, who wrote other tense melodramas, Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair) moves more swiftly than the law but with all its ruthless directness. Its plot has the fascinating features of a front-page murder story. The Command to Love. The balance of power in international politics is not maintained by heartless artillery alone. Every French diplomat to the Spanish court, for instance, avails himself of the services of a seductive military attache. Since all state treaties are in the hands of men who are in turn in the hands of their wives...
...largest power pool of a fortnight ago, last week became a part of a larger largest power pool. A fortnight ago Thomas N. Carter of Public Service Gas & Electric Co. of New Jersey announced the merger of his company with Philadelphia Electric Co. and Pennsylvania & Light Co. (TIME, Sept. 26). Their transmission lines of 208 miles represented the largest linkage yet. Last week directors of the company of which Mr. Carter's is a subsubsidiary-United Gas Improvement*-agreed with directors of the Philadelphia Electric Co. (already a part of the earlier merger) to pool their power resources. Their...