Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still be more successful and cross the Atlantic and land in the U. S., be arrested and incarcerated for the above deed, do you think public sentiment would be strong enough from the Chief Executive of this nation or those who are in position to use the executive power, that these said parties would not have to serve time in a Federal prison, or do you think he or they would be pardoned? I ask you this, Mr. Editor, in all earnestness, and trust you will favor me with a reply as soon as possible, either in open letter...
...conventional clutch is a cushioned disk (connected to the transmission gears), which takes power from the engine when it is forced against a disk on the face of the engine's spinning flywheel. In fluid drive the flywheel is equipped not with a disk, but with a sort of water wheel. Facing the blades of this water wheel is a similar set of blades on the transmission shaft. The two sets of blades are enclosed in a sealed compartment filled with light oil. As the flywheel gathers speed, the blades attached to it set the oil in motion...
When Barry attempts to sum up his allegory of good and evil in words, and to affirm man's redemption through his own powers of godliness, it is all too plainly the author speaking, not the characters. If this summing up is bad because of its clumsy preaching, it is also bad because its very explicitness shatters a mood whose strength lies in its eerie, wordless power of suggestion. Barry's people, never quite real, can haunt the audience as unhappy spectres; as stock symbols in a morality play, they merely irritate...
...were made against a short handed opponent, with one score for each of the four penalties in the game. When Hadder's men really rolled up the points in the last period, it was largely through their ability to get the jump against the westerners' desperate five-men power plays...
...second period was fast but scoreless, with only the fine work of Dave Mitell in the Crimson goal preventing a relentless Trojan attack from succeeding. In the third canto a succession of power plays proved the visitors' final undoing, when their defense was unable to check back in time to prevent four Crimson successful jumps, one by Winslow and the rest by Harding...