Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited to projects noncompetitive with private enterprise. That made Secretary Ickes yelp, because it ruled out a lot of power projects...
...down the line, exchanging a few words with each man and woman. Their remarks reflected their own condition: "You must be tired. . . . You must be simply dead. . . . You must be glad you are going home. ..." A woman reporter told the Queen that she had never seen anyone with the power to give such happiness. The Queen blushed, murmured her thanks. "It is very kind of you to say that about my wife," added the King...
Russia, riddled by the purges of the Trotskyite dissenters, was in no mood to fight a Far Eastern war on behalf of the Chinese. Great Britain, strongest European power in the Far East, was hamstrung by fears lest the year-old Civil War in Spain leap its national boundaries and rage through the Mediterranean and along the Rhine. The French Popular Front Government, bedeviled by fiscal troubles, was in no position to take part of the White Man's Burden in Asia on its sagging shoulders. The U. S., although its Navy was growing, had only recently passed...
...boatload seems to have one important handicap. They have in the past found it hard to turn on the power with a low stroke. In their nip-and-tuck race with Cornell they were unable to lower the beat to a thirty-four...
...Since the Chicago Stock Exchange adopted a plan to have a paid president in March 1938, conservative and progressive factions have jockeyed for power. Progressive President Thaddeus R. ("Brick") Benson, who pushed through the reorganization, was the man most mentioned for the paid presidency. He went so far as to dissolve his firm, presumably because the new constitution provided that the president must have no business interest in the exchange. But soon after the reorganization Conservative Arthur Betts was named chairman and president pro tern. For a year Chicago waited to see who would get the permanent post. Last week...