Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago today, Harvard was the scene upon which representatives of Boston, of Massachusetts and of the nation joined to render homage to a great American figure. Almost without a break since that day, the country has continued to pay tribute, sometimes voiced and sometimes silent, to the power of that man and of his work...
...allies in the great struggle, but the country and the people were exhausted and could hardly go on. The Bolsheviks were the only ones, however, who openly advocated the making of a separate peace with Germany. They succeeded in stirring the people up to the point of seizing the power in November 1917, and in arresting all members of the Kerensky government except Kerensky himself. He was forced to leave Russia, and Lenin took over the reins of government. Soon after the new regime concluded the Peace of Brest-Litavsk...
Soon M. Kerensky became War Minister, and in May he began an extraordinary oratorical campaign which so far restored the morale of the army that it launched a last desperate offensive against Germany in June. When this failed and the army collapsed the power of the Mensheviki became shadowy; but Minister Kerensky as the outstanding Menshevik leader assumed the Premiership which he held for four months...
...chief difficulty in transmitting high-voltage current arises from the fact that the natural leakage of the conducting line causes a loss of power at a certain distance from the source of the current, deadening the line if correctives are not applied. In addition, long distance high voltage lines are apt to behave erratically. To steady the operation of the line, automatic voltage regulators are added to it at regular intervals. Engineer Baum's invention consisted, broadly, in replacing all but a minimum of auxiliary regulating equipment, with synchronous condensers every 100 miles. In these condensers, the current...
...Significance: possible use of Rocky Mountain waterpower current in the Mississippi Valley, of Niagara's power in Manhattan, of Muscle Shoals by the southern hinterland; power for farmers; de-centralization of industry...