Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
Later, and in a more quiet mood, Pastor Straton found the opportunity to say: "... While Warren [his son] was praying, the power of God came over him just as it did over Paul and struck him down in the dust, as it came in ancient times over whole companies of men. I am not ashamed of it, nor is my son ashamed of it.... I am not a publicity hound.... I have been fighting unrighteousness since I came down to New York, and I have been doing it in a corner. What I would rather do than anything else...
Since then Mr. Blumenfeld has become, if not a "power," at least a virile, pungent force in Fleet Street, which he described, last week, as "that street of golden adventure which has been so long my home...
Finally, in a garage in Omaha, he smiled at disappointments as he built the Bellanca VIII-a monoplane of large wing surface, with struts, fuselage and tail all designed to give great lifting power. People thought the plane a little queer. Nevertheless, it won 13 efficiency prizes, aided by a little Anzani motor which Mr. Bellanca purchased from a junkman for $75. As everyone now knows, the famed Columbia is a Bellanca VIII equipped with a Wright Whirlwind motor...