Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats." Old but Able. Before the Supreme Court last week, a stocky 93-year-old gentleman with neatly trimmed snow-white beard and abundant snow-white hair, looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction. He was Moses Hooper-for 70 years an able lawyer of Oshkosh, Wis. He had ridden in his automobile to Washington and intends to ride back to Oshkosh soon. Beech-Nut v. Beechnut. P. Lorillard Co. (Beechnut chewing tobacco) is not infringing the trademark...
...Australian male earns $22 a week (as against $30 in the U. S.); and Australians spent over $500 each to put 329,883 men into the World War. Some 300,000 of these suffered casualties, over 50,000 being killed. But even with this vicious drain on her man power and exchequer, Australia has emerged from the War strong and quickening. year and a half ago she weathered a great shipping strike, and through all these growing pains and tribulations has resolutely pushed forward the great project of Canberra...
...first executive act, Vice President Ibanez declared the office of Chief Justice vacant. Thus he himself became absolute master of Chile by a subterfuge technically constitutional. He holds the executive power and has the supreme judiciary office to dispense...
...higher than sanity during a wilderness period following the failure of his first marriage, but regained a balance fortified by the experience. It taught him the relation of self-expansion and self-obliteration, the phases by which, like two legs constantly passing each other, mankind has marched-Roman power, Christian abnegation; Renaissance, Reformation; hayfoot, strawfoot. He renewed the motion of his days, saying: "The stream of life, like running water, can purify itself...
...University Crews since Coach E. J. Brown '96 cut the squad last Saturday, Crew Y was declared winner over Crew X, in one of the closest races held this year on the Charles. The Crews were chosen by Coach Brown with especial emphasis on making them virtually equal in power. At the end of the up-stream ten minute race, Crew Y was a quarter length ahead of Crew...