Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill for the erection of a monument at Kitty Hawk, N. C., commemorating the first successful flight in a power-driven plane by pioneer airman Orville Wright...
Dissenting Opinion. Associate Justices Holmes, Brandeis, Sanford and Stone dissented. With brief eloquence Mr. Holmes, 86,* wrote: "We fear to grant power and are unwilling to recognize it when it exists. . . . The truth seems to me to be that, subject to compensation when compensation is due, the legislature may forbid or restrict any business when it has a sufficient force of public opinion behind it. Lotteries were thought useful adjuncts of the State a century or so ago; now they are believed to be immoral and they have been stopped. Wine has been thought good for man from the time...
...responsibility of Russia in encouraging the ambitions of Serbia in the years before the War, and in helping her at a critical moment must be judged in the light of her position as the leading Slav power in Europe, and as the champion of the small Balkan States. She had fought for them in 1876 and there was a close feeling of solidarity between the members of the orthodox church. But her decision to draw the sword in 1914 was due less to her sympathy for Serbia than to a desire to restore her prestige; and it was precisely because...
...Halls now stand was all covered with water, and you could cross the river only at low tide," declared John Skeehan to a Crimson reporter on one of his visits to not well-known, but in dispensable Harvard employees "In 1885 the then marshy ground where the Boston Elevated power plant now sits, was sold for half a cent a foot, and I'll tell you it was a bargain...
...earnings of great corporations in transportation, communication, power & light, cinema, or automotive, iron and steel industries are important for two main reasons: 1) They are barometers of the rise and fall of prosperity; 2) the multitude of the stock and bond holders depends on their earnings for livelihood and luxury. But there exists a vastly greater number of concerns, more or less obscure, more or less subsidiary, whose earnings constitute a greater part of U. S. income. A few such concerns, and their 1926 earnings as reported recently...