Word: potently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call of the swivel chair and big buzzers with buttons once again proves more potent than the excitement of the courtroom or the harrowing drama of the country doctor's life as the Senior class plumps for business as an intended vocation over law and medicine...
...available chemical which would check gastric secretion in ulcer patients, Physiologists John Stephens Gray, Elfie Wieczorowski and famed Researcher Andrew Conway Ivy of Chicago's Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts, "are very potent in inhibiting gastric secretion" of dogs. What the inhibiting agent of urine was, they could not say, nor did they venture to predict its effect on human beings...
...managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were of Jewish blood: Alf Landon, William Allen White Mrs. Cordell Hull...
...sessions of rich, potent B. R. T.'s quadrennial convention were closed to outsiders including the press. President Whitney forbade the 975 delegates to talk out of meeting, could & would oust any who disobeyed. The few who might have been inclined to do so remembered what happened to two uppity brothers in 1935: Brother Whitney, who is one of Cleveland's leading citizens, had police lock up the pair for the duration of the convention...
...mine operators were facing their own situation; six-weeks of shut-down had helped them to get rid of half of their coal piles and any longer stoppage would only cost them money which they could ill afford to lose. But some operators still held out. Many a potent mine owner, ready to sign at union terms, accused the holdouts of stalling in hope of provoking an industrial war in which U. M. W. might be licked...