Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap up and walk; breathing life into the broken boy, Eutychus; surviving the viper's bite at Melita, island of honey. But only by its preponderant power are the book's weaknesses found out. Taken whole it is a book of a noble man seen steadfastly-Saul the scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly...
Signor Benito Mussolini, The Head of the State, The Leader of Fascismo, permitted a fair trial last week to onetime Socialist. Deputy Tito Zaniboni (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 et seq.) who was arrested at his hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death...
Dictator-President Mustafa Kernel Pasha, styled Ghazi, "The Victorious," issued an executive order: "Throughout the Turkish Republic no toy or recreational device shall be adorned in any manner with the colors of a foreign power."- Lenient, the Dictator made his decree non-retroactive; but in Constantinople the arrested kite-fliers were severely rebuked before being released, blubbering...
...frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come...
...model Rolls-Royce-the "Phantom"-appeared last week at the Springfield, Mass., Rolls-Royce U. S. factory site. It has six brakes. 55 points for lubrication (all operated by single motion from the driver's seat.) and a silent, reciprocating engine of one-third more power than the present "Forty-Fifty" Rolls-Royce. These represent the first distinct changes in Rolls-Royce models in 15 years, said Chairman Henry J. Fuller...