Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot over 50,000 miles, and over 50,000 miles on sea, and my name has been immortalized, and I have had more than one hundred demonstrations and receptions, but I have not made one cent out of all over my expenses. My next great circular is the Invisible Power of All-visible Powers. I have been to the principal colleges of America the last fifty years...
...Power...
...RAND, JR.'87 will play the Law School nine at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The following men will please be on the field at 1.45: Litchfield, Manly, Bisbee, Coolidge, Allen, Dudley, Power, Faulkner and Houghton...
...course there is absolutely no means of judging of the relative powers of the ancients and the moderns in the "noble art of self-defence." That the ancients, especially the Greeks, did box, and that most savagely, we know. So far from using gloves to lessen the damaging effects of their blows, or even from using simply the power that nature and training had given to their bare fists, they increased this by tying strips of hard bulls hide round them when clinched, and sometimes even attached nails and lead buckles to these to make their blows more deadly. They...
Does this indicate that the men of the present day are vastly superior in physical power to those of the past...