Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Foreign Minister, Sen Jui-lin, spoke to the delegates in general terms and deplored the fact that China, "a sovereign power," should be restricted in setting her own tariff schedules. Marshal Tuan Chi-Jui, "Chief Executive" of China, delivered himself to much the same effect. Then up rose Dr. Cheng Ting Wang, a graduate of Yale University, sometime Premier and Foreign Minister of China. In loud clear tones, speaking in flawless English, he outlined China's specific proposals to the Powers...
...will of the late James B. Duke, North Carolina tobacco and power magnate, filed last fortnight, the $40,000,000 endowment for which Trinity College (Durham, N. C.) became a part of Duke University (TIME, Jan. 12) was doubled. Thirty additional millions were immediately available. Pending the transfer of Duke University's final 10 millions, leading endowments...
...University of Chicago neurologist, issued statements anent the brain. There are 9,200,000,000 cells in the human cortex. In the process of thought one of these cells combines with ten others, and so on through a possibility of combinations expressed mathematically as 10 to the 300,000th power...
...atoms in the sidereal universe were 10 to the 66th power at the last census...
...POWER AND THE GLORY-Sir Gilbert Parker-Harpers ($2.00). This broad canvas is open to the criticism, so frequently heard these days, that it was painted to hang in the cinema boxoffice. But what of that. The epic exploits of its tall and handsome hero are swept in with splendid vigor. Its backgrounds of political intrigue at the court of Louis XIV, of rushing rivers and Indian-filled forests in Canada and Mid-America, are lavish and alive. The hero, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, might or might not recognize himself in the completely noble explorer here exhibited...