Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...
They discussed, drafted and signed, he declared, "a secret treaty establishing a military unity between the 'Little Entente' nations, thus raising the effective status of the group to the rank of a Great Power...
...endorse it sight-unseen as "a duty of unconditional loyalty to the State." As if this were not enough to stagger politicians and jolt the Peace of Europe, the article concluded gloatingly that while Italy has a standing military force of only 329,000 men "the new Military Power in Central Europe musters total military effectives...
Amazed students of modern history had only a few hours in which to wonder whether Dr. Edouard Benes?co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation. Ceske Slovo announced that the entire story "must be considered as withdrawn." In all the "Little Entente" countries censorship was clamped on tight. None of the three Governments made an announcement or explanation. What could not be hushed up in the U. S. can and frequently is hushed in Central...
...exercise a day for a week increases the capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...