Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention of destroying trade unionism or weakening...
...nearly bankrupt last week, that it voted 19 to 14 to accept funds from the ?1,000,000 (84-860,000) private fund controlled by Mr. Lloyd George. The Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg, commented: "Lloyd George is using money which he obtained by selling titles while in power, to buy the Liberal Party, so that he can sell its support to the Laborites...
Significance. The Mexican religious struggle has settled down to a war of propaganda. The encyclical did not scruple to invoke a boojum like "un-Americanism"-which has the power of all nationalist invocations down to "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" and "Yap for the Yaps." In the war of propaganda between Mexico City and Rome the latter is now leading heavily in the U. S. with its two million encyclical letter pamphlets following closely the recently distributed legal indictment of Mexico by William Dameron Guthrie, Roman Catholic President of the Association of the Bar of New York City (TIME...
...perhaps ever been more brilliant, more permiated with life and power than the Italian Renaissance, and no man among all the great men of the time, was more gifted than Leonardo da Vinci...
...there is the physical satisfaction. That is why they have personally done as much as possible of the actual work. Compare it with other sports, and the physical effort is surprising. Contrast a round of golf in foot-pounds of work, or a set of tennis in the lung power required with climbing a mountain under a forty-pound pack; compare chopping one big cross-log with the strokes of nine holes: and you will see why a seasoned tramper and axeman will "kill" a college athlete at this game...