Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opening, Mr., Churchill emphasized the great political responsibility which rests on every young man. By an illustration from one of Daniel Webster's speeches, he showed that the personality and magnetic power of a men, and not fine oratory, are what count in politics...
...forth the chief agencies that are instrumental in moulding a child's cenception of religion. In the following two lectures the broad realm of orthodoxy, which even extends to politics, social customs, and economics, was forcefully propounded, and the decay of authority was made evident by examples of the power of the parent over the child, the husband over the wife, and employer over the employee. Dwelling on the responsibility of the church last Monday, Professor Zueblin stated that the duty of religion is to moralize the six wants which make towards the well-rounded happiness of a perfect moral...
...Saturday started a block nearer the finish than the full course requires, the time cannot be taken for a new record. All three crews rowed a good race; in fact there was very little difference in form between the second and third boats, but the second had greater power and endurance, and was able to pull into the lead just before the judges' boat was reached...
...Dramatic Artist," by T. R. Lounsbury h.'93; "Together," by R. Herrick '90; "The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies," by H. C. Lea h.'90; "A Short History of Architecture--Europe," by R. Sturgis '00; "England," by A. L. Lowell '77; "The United States as a World Power," by A. C. Coolidge '87; "As Others See Us," by J. G. Brooks D.'75; "The Government by the People," by R. H. Fuller '88; "The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life," by H. C. King...
...broken. Moral at stroke, having replaced Sargent on Monday, pulls an excellent oar, getting a longer reach and harder drive at the finish. Waid who was taken from the second crew and put in at five in the first, rows in good form, and gets a good deal of power into each stroke...