Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to how one wishes to view his various resignations. As he died on the 17th of December while he was endeavoring to leave Colombia, he hardly held office up to the time of his death, although there was an effort to place him back in power at the moment of his demise...
...wont, ensconced himself amid urban luxury. Barbarian that he is, he is said to treasure still a cheap Connecticut alarm clock, acquired in his youth under circumstances of good omen. Conferees Swelter. With the approach of Peking's blistering summer the delegates of the nine Washington Treaty Powers, assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2), grew not unnaturally restive last week. The Chang-Wu-fostered Premier of China, Dr. W. W. Yen (TIME, May 10), resigned early in the week, abandoned the farce of pretending that he and a handful of informal advisors constituted the Government of China. Why should...
...written, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province," and had proceeded to map all the marches of that province, indicating the advances that should be made at once in every science; inventing new sciences and mapping their courses in a few terse words. Utility and power were to be the ends for the new knowledge that he described. Like Aristotle he believed in man's ability to conquer nature. But he corrected Aristotle's method of examining nature, instituting a "new organon" of inductive logic-accumulating facts, theorizing later. He destroyed a great number of scholastic...
...whisk across the Atlantic in 36 hours. There would be six huge pontoons for landing, if necessary, on the sea, and in these a crew of 25 mechanics would be berthed. Tons of trunks and fuel for 16 hours of top-speed flying were provided with stowage and lifting power. From control cabins in the wing tips the pilots would set their course from Europe first to the Azores, thence...
...flawless rhythm of Ed Leader. . . Yale's rhythmic beat. . . . blessed with the finer rhythm and ... It was all rhythm . . . Rhythm that Milton and Byron might have . . . lesson in rhythm . . . that matchless-, Yale's magi c , the marvelous -, the same unbeatable-, a matter of-, the enduring -, the power of -, the- ic power, effort against-, the Leader - , the power of-, when you can beat . . . rhythm...