Word: potent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porter know that he was born in the largest house in Washington Square, Manhattan, that his golf is poor, his marksmanship good, that he likes to fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head...
Omen. Before men are done to death in battle, before walled towns are razed and wide-wayed cities sacked, there is almost invariably a potent omen. At Aulis it was a serpent with a blood-red back. In Roman days it was frequently a pair of eagles or a flight of swans...
Basically the Heimwehr demanded as the only alternative to revolution, that the Austrian Constitution be amended to strengthen the authority of the Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened...
...Chicago University, the president's house was not in commission. So Presi dent Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30, obtained from Yale last June, to be inducted in November, is living temporarily as the house guest of Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for Mrs. Hutchins, who sculps, was improvised over the Swift garage. Max Epstein, chairman of General American Tank Car Corp., who donated and for whom was named the Epstein Dispensary, has given some $1,000,000 for an art center. For teachers and pictures the university must look elsewhere...
...though the electric utility seems to have been expressly designed for capitalistic development, it is only within the present year that J. P. Morgan & Co., most potent embodiment of U. S. capital, has entered largely into the light and power field. Excited, last week, were U. S. newspapers and U. S. senators when the Morgan utility interests acquired from the Mellon utility interests a group of light and power companies along the St. Lawrence River. Significant indeed was this transaction, but in a larger sense it was only a milestone along the Morgan utility road. When the economic textbooks...