Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would seem to us that Mexico is acting well within her rights in reserving her property for her own nationals in the future. It would further seem that the Mexican government's interpretation of its own laws is more likely to be correct than the interpretation of a foreign power. There have been certain indications that our government realizes that its case is none too strong. It was inadvertently revealed this week that the sensational newspaper stories on Mexican Bolshevist propaganda in Nicaragua were inspired by those "higher up in Washington" to incite further resentment in the United States against...
...reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth that defy description. It is among the workers in such quarters as these that the sentiment...
...number of books returned will supply amusing evidence as to the power of anonymity. If "Whispering Gallerys" come back in large quantities one may assume that the public is interested only in that slander which has claim to authenticity. On the other hand if the returns are small the indication will be that human nature considers a whispering gallery to be an instructive body even though, its members be blind, deaf, and as far as real facts are concerned--dumb...
Through its Committee on Education and Vocation the new University Club of Boston hopes to become a power in helping to the choice of his proper vocation the young man whose college training has been largely academic. At a meeting held last Thursday, at which the heads of 28 New England colleges were present, tentative plans for the work of this Committee in cooperation with the colleges were laid, according to S. C. Lary, permanent secretary of the Committee...
...more people with the power to bring criticism of college and university, daily before the public eye would stress such things as have been mentioned by the "Herald" and the "Times", then the country at large might have a saner conception of what college really means. And the moving picture hero with a crazy-quilt sweater and patent leather hair might be removed from his niche of credence in the public mind...