Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview yesterday Fairbank described how our trade in China has always been dependent upon British sea power, a power which is rapidly diminishing in the Far East...
...authority on the Far Eastern situation, Fairbank said that the United States has no way of using direct force to protect its interest. The country has inadequate naval power in the Orient...
...whale's brain was nearly three times as big as the horse's-2,355 grams to 809-and the whale's thyroid was more than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine than young Homo sapiens, breed he ever so artfully...
With their ear-windows the Clarks were first to demonstrate (in 1930) that bruised lymphatic glands have regenerative power (the recuperating glands crawled right over the edge of the glass); that arteries and veins are bridged by blood vessels larger than capillaries. Other scientists, borrowing the now classic ear-window technique, have watched the effects of hormones, alcohol, serum and vaccine on the rabbits' bloodstreams...
...Roman ancestors of present-day Fascists fought three full-length wars with a first-class Semitic power-Carthage. For 17 years Semitic Generalissimo Hannibal made Italy unsafe for Italians; Scipio, played by Cinemactor Annibale (Hannibal) Ninchi, finally defeated him at Zama, near Carthage. Scipio Africanus reviews this ancient history with Latin enthusiasm, Roman corpses, blazing villas, trumpeting war elephants, clanking swords. Up-to-the-minute double meanings for ardent Fascists: 1) the Semite is still public enemy No. 1; 2) conquered Carthage stood in what is now Fascist-coveted French Tunis...