Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year than the corresponding date of 1920. I am also enclosing a booklet called "The Horse Situation, Facts Regarding Number and Value of Horses in the United States 1911-1924." . . . Our viewpoint is entirely unprejudiced as we manufacture and sell horse-drawn tillage tools as well as power farming equipment. E. R. DURGIN...
Secretary Kellogg denied that the treaty in any way placed Panama under the protection of the U. S. and that, anyway, the League had no power to abrogate a treaty made by the U. S. with a foreign power...
...quarrel concerned Fascist policy and was between two members of the fire-eating wing of Fascismo, (Emilio Settimelli and Mario Carli, editors of the Impero [Power], sometimes described as an official Fascist journal) and the two members of the weaker-kneed group, Curzio Suckert and Telesio Interlandi, (editors of the Tevere [Stable], a convenient backyard for Dictator Mussolini's mental gambits...
...form in men's minds by the opening of the 20th Century. Dreamers dreamed world Utopias. Statesmen fashioned a league and a court for the world's nations. In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted. Scientists planned to blanket the earth with radio power waves from common world generators. Men flew around the world, proposed a world language, spun world-wide business networks...
...assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance. And to its fundamental perfections are superadded real whimsy, real pathos, an unobtrusive cleverness at small talk...