Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus spoke Benito Mussolini in 1923, a few months after he seized power. Today the tone of his speeches, at least for foreign consumption is vastly different. Last week, when a correspondent asked, "Are personal Liberty and Fascismo compatible?" Il Duce replied: "The conception of liberty is not absolute because there is no conception that can be absolute. Fascismo is opposed to excessive individualism. It is not opposed to individualism. On the contrary, we believe in variety, differentiation, the essential inequality of man. The 18th and 19th Centuries experimented with democracy. In the 20th Century democracy should reach its maturity...
Even so he is but a pygmy beside the gigantic sumos (wrestlers) of Japan, men who weigh up to 400 pounds, mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws...
...much ferment in Sculptor Kalish's native Cleveland. As everywhere, there were plenty of people to quarrel with the artist's anatomical exaggerations and inaccuracies; his tendency to pose a character rather than compose a type. But the majority marveled at his obvious sincerity and unusual power. Detroit, hive of industry, saw its own image and was content...
...railway stocks (TIME, Jan. 24): "Back in Manhattan after a five-weeks' countrywide tour in behalf of the World Service Council of the Y. W. C. A., of which I am chairman, I declared that women give less to charity than men. Reason: a woman's giving power is usually dependent upon what her husband gives her to give. And, said I: 'A man who is generous personally to appeals often keeps his wife on a sum for her own donations that, by comparison, is a pittance.' This is why movements appealing primarily to women receive few notably large gifts...
...famed Gar Wood boats, the same that, in a standard Baby Gar, beat the 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York in 1925. They are 33 feet long. They go 55 miles an hour. They are equipped with big Gar Wood Super Marine Engines, 12 cylinders, 500 horse power. Three men can sit abreast on the driver's seat behind the windshield. The most powerful Gar Wood costs...