Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...land. Enforcement having made scarcely any headway lately, and many a politician who is neither wet nor dry having lately for- gotten to be dry outwardly, the Anti-Saloon League is reported ready to spend $600,000 the next few months to remind forgetful politicians of its power. As soon as may be, a successor to the late Mr. Wheeler as high-salaried, legalistic manipulator of funds and politicians, will be chosen. In the meantime, the League announced last week, double duty will be done by Dr. F. Scott McBride, whose functions hitherto have been to berate alcohol at conventions...
...from 300 to 360 members of both sexes, all of whom will be appointed (not elected) by Primo. The members will be chosen from municipal bodies, from the ultra-conservative Patriotic Union, from representatives of the fields of commerce, science, arts, letters, agriculture, industry. They will have no power to pass legislature, but they may formulate legislative proposals, which Primo de Rivera may accept or reject as he sees...
...evening, Dean A. Hanford who addressed the assemble class as "Fellow Freshmen," referring to his first year in the Dean's Office Dean Hanford quickly brought his talk to discussion of the purpose of an education. He advised his charged to all toward, first, a development of intellect all power, second, the development of critical sense, and third, the development of individuality. "The best top the world has produced," stated Dean Hanford, is the highly trained mind However, intellectual power is not merely an assimilation of facts, but a constructive use of them toward the formation of critical sense...
...went to the second at mid-field. S. C. Burns '30 then intercepted a pass and covered the 50 yards necessary for a touchdown. G. E. Donaghy '29 put the ball between the uprights with a placement kick. In scoring their second touchdown the regulars showed evidences of sustained power, carrying the ball from their own 20 yard line the full 80 yards for a score. Holbrook, S. C. Burns, and Donaghy did the carrying. Holbrook going off tackle for a final gain of 15 yards...
...spellbound, breathless and even unconscious, on the varying grounds that it was vulgar brutality, misdirected energy, or vapid inanity is begging the question in a conventional and entirely superficial fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess any, of Joseph Eugene and William Harrison might, it is true, prove any number of nasty things about modern journalism...