Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems hard to believe that, somewhere in this counry, there aren't 50 or 60 boys who want to come to Harvard, who are bright enough to get here, and who can also lug a football with enough finesse to make Harvard an Ivy League power once again. For every football player who comes to Dartmouth from Hawaii there must be another who would come to Harvard if he got the chance...
...Power Hitter. The tight-lipped brothers are masters of a tightly run empire with an estimated net worth in excess of $65 million. Its citadel is the sprawling Western Cartridge Co. at East Alton, Ill., on the Mississippi bluffs just north of St. Louis. This huge plant grew out of a blasting-powder business which their father, Franklin, founded...
Once in a while, the old Faulkner power comes through in a blaze of language, an original phrase (a gangster has "a face like a shaved wax doll"), or an insight into rural character. But except for Tomorrow, an effective account of how the family loyalties of a poor-white clan can tangle the job of justice, the stories fall between two stools: they are neither ingenious enough to be good detective yarns nor deep and free enough to be good Faulkner Detective-story fans will be horrified to find crucial clues spelled out in italics; Faulkner fans will find...
...keep the Council representative. But I think these elected men should be able to obtain the assistance of other men of outstanding and, where necessary, specialized ability. It is not enough that such men be used in a consultative capacity. They must be regular Council members, with voting power, whose opinions and influence can color the attitude of the Council and help mold its final decisions...
...were mistaken in your editorial of November 15 when you said the Dean used to appoint men to the Student Council. What actually happened under the old Constitution was that a majority of elected members appointed seven or eight other members. The Dean had no more power over the Council then than he does...