Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, go so far as to make war inevitable, as France and Russia did. And then during the summer when Germany saw that things were not going as she had hoped and that her position was decidedly the weaker of the two she tried everything in her power to prevent the impending struggle...
...stop? I'm sure that I don't know. So long as matters continue as at present, with the press in the power of its big advertisers, and the advertisers full of the popular notions, the principle of free speech have their shoulders to the mat. Educating the public may help, if only the public may be reached...
...After all, why is knowledge so highly prized?" asks the committee. "Surely it is because of its power to throw light on the problems of human life. It seems reasonable to assert that all knowledge was philosophical in origin. When primitive man first raised the questions. "What?" and "Why" about life he originated the germs from which have sprung all our increasing categories of knowledge...
...common stock outstanding. The company is in excellent financial condition-liabilities $39,829,694, assets $270,271,884. Its principal financial activity during the year was the distribution to shareholders of its holdings in Electric Bond & Share Co., a concern which controls directly or indirectly some 100 electric power, street railway and gas companies between Canada and the Gulf and between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. Its relations to General Electric were so generally criticized that the parent company of its own volition cut it off (TIME, Jan. 12, May 18, 1925). The Western Electric sells most of its products...
...reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...