Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazine, where the elements of the background can be readily collected. It is only by understanding the earlier stages of a situation that the situation Itself can be well understood; and to have in mind all these settings, ready to apply to each item of current news, requires a power of memory which few possess...
...ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the U.S. and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. 2) The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 3) This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission thereof to the States...
...despatches, took it upon himself to keep order at Peking with a handful of mercenaries, and generally mediated between the contending factions. Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...
...mental institution in England in 1923 for six months, but as she seemed normal after that the family had no power to keep her under control. But in Italy it seems there are no lunacy laws...
...China" (since the office of President is vacant), had either been imprisoned while his rival Taso Kun (the last President) had been released from jail; or Tuan's personal soldier- police were still protecting him and keeping in confinement such of his enemies as were in their power...