Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present threat is of greater danger to the peace of Washington. Sir Esme Howard himself has voluntarily offered to set up a zone of local prohibition in the British embassy. And of course such an example of good-will from one power might necessitate similar action by others in order to maintain a proper diplomatic balance. What wonder that foreign capitals must be consulted...
...basic principle of decentralization, its independence of power resources, electric light, its amazingly simplified practicality in the perfection of detail has convinced many of the most obdurate, and has frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean...
...Federal Trade Commission also planned to call two more publishers, two more paper tycoons. The publishers are: Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...
...power that had usurped his wits...
...upsets, with Dartmouth undertaking a surprising power-in the distance runs, and the Crimson coming back in the field events and dashes when its chances seemed most slim resulted in a victory for Coach Farrell's men by a scant seven point margin. At the same time Yale humbled Princeton easily to the tune of 80-49, and the times and distance of the Blue-Tiger meet bode ill for the Crimson at their meeting in New Haven next week...