Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gilbreth is one of the few contractors who issue contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished nothing. The working classes were driven to organize themselves politically in order to protect their rights. In Italy corruption was the cause of the socialist movement. Here the new party has not gained great power in the government, but it has driven out the dishonest men by opposing to them honest men in every election. In all countries, except the United States, political parties are passing bills to keep down the socialist vote...
...Providence on November 12, "Salvation Nell," the play by E. B. Sheldon '08 in which Mrs. Fiske is acting, has been the subject of much favorable comment in the press. It is practically the unanimous verdict of the critics that Mr. Sheldon has produced a work of great power...
...John Hopkins Dennison, minister of the Central Church, Boston, will speak at the weekly meeting of the Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. His subject will be "The Power of Right Thinking." All members of the University are cordially invited to be present...
...only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well at its own as at others' hands. Mr. Davis has proved himself behind certain crudities of technique, a playwright of power...