Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes on: I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment. . . . Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Angrily, readers asked themselves: Do Uldine's declarations of literate faith in Biblical commandments let her forget the Magna Charta and the Rights of Man as expressed in the U. S. Constitution...
...Ordinary wireless waves spray their messages ; the beam system directs them, gaining privacy and saving power. Marconi Wireless Telegraph already uses the beam system to reach other parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations; will have its U. S. hook-up working by July, its South American hook-up later in the year...
Cities Service Co., $650,000,000 holding company, controls directly or indirectly 75 gas, electric light, heat, power, electric railway and water, and more than 45 oil-producing and refining properties in 18 of the United States and in Canada. Its public utilities serve a population of over 3,000,000 people in more than 600 different communities, most notably Denver, Col.; Sandusky, Ohio; Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo.; Kansas City and Topeka, Kan.; Danbury, Conn...
...even pitying toward those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
...there is hard work but there is lacking that tendency of driving which is evident in the American coaching system and which ultimately gives the American crew the impression of being a machine. But the Oxford or Cambridge eight gradually becomes a crew which for watermanship, blade work and power is equal if not superior to our usual crew...