Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution of the Newspaper Association is the first organized intercollegiate recognition of these purposes which all agree, lead to broader education. The implied commendation of these purposes and the substantial aid it is in the power of college journalism to give them, should raise them somewhat in the student mind from the ephemeral and purely idealistic to the real and attainable. The action comprises one step away from collegiate Babbitry...
After dividing the individual contests at three all the Crimson club-wielders showed unexpected power in the foursomes and took two of the three matches to down the Elis...
...beyond the power of individual nations to adjust tariffs equitably. The balance of theoretical arguments for and against protection is lost from sight in the political necessity of satisfying applicants for protection. And revision upward is often as difficult as downward revision, because of its effect on private parties to the industrial community. If nations are still unable to levy theoretical tariffs within their borders, it is folly to expect a powerless international commission to recommend tariff revisions at all acceptable...
...Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted for Mr. Vare, and that in the whole state, despite the opposition of nearly every newspaper, despite the fact that the Philadelphia machine has little power outside its bailiwick, there were enough votes to give Vare a handsome plurality. It does not seem that Mr. Vare could possibly have been nominated if it had not been for his issue...
...refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian gift in any case, because he had personally stopped the Soviet money transfer under the Emergency Power Act. Sir William magnanimously added that, although the Emergency Power Act was still in force, he would not stop money transfers to the Miners' Federation, because their strike was "legal," whereas, in his opinion, the "general strike...