Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word for The Master. It seems to me that while you have it in your power you could make a more excellent contribution to Christian civilization by more pungent comment on the RELIGION topic from time to time...
Muscle Shoals. At the President's suggestion in his message last December, Congress passed a resolution directing a joint committee to receive bids and determine the best method of disposing of the Government's power-fertilizer producing political white elephant. The committee reported (TIME, May 10, MUSCLE SHOALS), but not unanimously, and Congress just couldn't find time to settle the difficult problem at this session...
George Fisher Baker: A great banker, whose labors have not clogged his sensibility, whose power has not dimmed his magnanimity, whose position has not impaired his simplicity...
Undergraduate Power. Yes, as President Emeritus Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve University had written in the New York Times, an outstanding phenomenon everywhere during 1925-26 was the increasing power?or at least, increased self-assertiveness? of the undergraduates. (Dr. Thwing had compared this phenomenon to the "student universities" of the Middle Ages, when a professor had to ask his pupils for permission to take a week-end off. Ah, there was thirst for knowledge in those days...
...under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle of one of the sides of the oblong rather like the stack of a power plant...