Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon President Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar?not just the usual lady-like dab?and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington...
...verge of believing that the President had become a follower of the Jeffersonian policy of state rights rather than that of the Hamiltonian doctrine of centralization, but before the echoes of his Williamsburg speech [TIME, May 24] have died away, we find him entering upon the most centralized power of the national Government by this executive order...
...team from the Pennsylvania Military College will be unusually strong, if its early season showing, when it defeated Yale rather handily, is any indication. Three of the members are left from last year's team, and the combination seems to have both experience and power. Alvin M. Burt will play number 1. D. N. Jones number 2, J. Whitehurst number 3 and Elmer Putt back...
...introduction of these elements into American higher education has occupied nearly a century. The increase in the number and the power of colleges, the immense sums raised for their maintenance, the overwhelming tide of students, the rapid turn in Faculty personnel, the incessantly expanding campus, the extending of the idea of going, to college to all classes of the commonwealth these and other improvements have made education a rather perplexing thing. Standards have been built up with enormous difficulty Weathering financial and other perils, the college has made its President a captain at the helm with complete power over...
...heritage from the west where the anti-saloon league did its systematic best, to make the Idaho Senator a man marked for the cause. Indeed, Mr. Borah possesses a Bryanesque build and the same loud sympathies which gave the commoner his crusading character. And both won fame from the power of invective. One cannot call the New York drys backward in recognizing the resemblance. They hope to find in Borah one who as gained note as Bryan gained it, but has not yet reaped the unpopularity that Bryan, rightly or wrongly, came to bear...