Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line. Sometimes they were held by the Black Shirts and either compelled to surrender the ball or start over again, giving up all their gains. They netted, however, a total of 13 first downs which is a better indication, because of the irregular nature of the scrimmage, of their power than the score itself...
...Soldier Fries explained, because its victims require from two to three persons each to care for them, "while statistics show that one man can dispose of two fatal casualties. . . . Wounded men are many times more a burden than the dead. Gas is the only instrument in which the power of the blow can be regulated...
...Flint was asked why a man like himself, "after he has amassed millions, goes on increasing his collection instead of retiring and en- joying life." Mr. Flint replied: "There is only one reason. Greed!" The interviewer protested: "Is it not because of ambition, a craving for power?" Mr. Flint repeated: "No! It is pure, green greed. . . . Greed, and greed alone, is the reason for a man's wanting to swell his wad million after million!" Mr. Flint, who as the "Father of Trusts"- made his money in shipping, electric lighting, rubber, chewing gum, munitions, etc., was asked the secret...
...Reserve Board at Washington for approval, a rediscount rate for their particular region. The Board was presumed able only to veto, not to initiate rates. By refusing to approve a rate offered by a regional bank, it could make that bank unable to function. The Board had practically full power...
...intelligence, and yet, strange as it may seem, the hero is a chiropodist. He made his fortune caring for feet in London and the Australian goldfields, and it was with his knives that he later redeemed imperfect pearls at Droone, the mythical antipode where he became a dark little power...