Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political difficulties he was combatting, if all prices were suddenly reduced by one half. Although he said that this was merely an idle fancy, he finally bad to agree with me that if it could be done the political problems would disappear like smoke. On the purchasing power of the mass of the people the security and peace of the World undoubtedly depends, and the only way to make this purchasing power sufficiently great is through scientific and mass production...
...flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire. In the sixth century when the splendor and power of Rome had largely disappeared, Leptis Magna was deserted by its inhabitants and for a number of centuries stood exposed to the desert sands which finally covered it almost entirely. As Pompeil had been covered and preserved by the ashes of Mt. Vesuvius, so Leptis Magna was kept unimpaired...
...sybyl was a seeress of no mean ability. Somewhat absent minded and a trifle vaporish, she nevertheless, had legions at her call--and enjoyed greater power than any modern mystic has dared profess. And now that her records are to be made public--now that the famous leaves are to be gathered by the grammarians and what note of Italy, one wonders how well this early priestess of the occult did her duty by her trade...
...universe, the sovereignty of Christ in salvation, the sovereignty of the Scriptures in faith and conduct, and the sovereignty of the in dividual conscience in the interpretation of the word of God. As a polity they recognize Christ as the only head of the church and source of all power, and the people of Christ as entitled unde their Lord to participation in the government and administration of the church. Their disciples consider one another equals. Their pastors are peers. Church government lies not in the hands of individuals but in representative courts - the session, the presbytery and the general...
Associated Oil ranks next to Standard Oil on the Pacific Coast. Tide Water Oil is formidable along the Atlantic, has large workings in the mid-continent field. Together they have the corporate right "to engage in the petroleum business generally, including the power to acquire securities of other companies." The bankers will give no intimations of what concerns may be taken...