Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court likewise held invalid a law of Washington which was used in quarantining the state against alfalfa shipments (which it was feared might bring in the alfalfa weevil), because the Court held that the state law conflicted with an Act of Congress placing the power to establish such quarantines with the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Junior University boat paddled two miles downstream. On the return, Coach Brown called for speed, and the entire distance was rowed at a beat of 32 or slightly better. While Coach Brown is pleased with the finish and coordination of his oarsmen he is not yet satisfied with their power. He accordingly intends to concentrate on drawing them out to their fullest strength. Another time trial this week for the Seconds is well within the range of possibilities...
Zaghlul, knowing himself persona non grata to the British, came to discuss whether he might assume the premiership. It was almost as though President Coolidge, duly erected by a Republican landslide, had felt obliged to ask the ambassador of a foreign power at Washington whether he might enter the White House...
...Harry Payne Whitney's group to commemorate the landing of U. S. troops at St. Nazaire was there-an eagle with 35 feet of tensile wingspread alighting on French soil with a virile young idealist on his back. One marveled at the power this slight Mrs. Whitney can put forth...
MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with...