Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitutional principles that until now guaranteed the solidity of our institutions are more and more frequently disregarded; responsibility is shifted; separation of power is not respected; organizations without legal mandates intervene in the formation and dislocation of governments; the exercise of executive power is no longer done in conformity with constitutional rules; the Chief of State finds himself . . . sometimes obliged to sanction decisions taken without his knowledge...
Developing 500 horsepower, the Ranger is the lightest powerplant of its size in the world (1.28 pounds per h.p.), weighs some 200 pounds less than European engines of the same design and power, has no counterpart in U. S. design. Jubilant Ranger engineers declared its principles were adaptable to bigger engines, refused to confirm a current report: that at its modest (100 employes) plant at Farmingdale, L. I., Ranger is already working on a new powerplant of more than 1,000 horsepower to compete with Allison...
...that the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ . . . leaves us with no other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...
Still tense and tingling is Odets' study of a bewildered, frustrated, dreaming, moodily rebellious Bronx family, caught in economic toils like wet fish in a net. Secret of the play's power is that it is neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts...
...field. Since Studebaker emerged from 776 in 1935, Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with the big three in price. But they discovered that the driving public remained dissatisfied with automobile economy. Result is the new Champion, which has approximately the size of Ford, the power of Chevrolet...