Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...appointed to consider the petition of the Scientific School alumni, asking for the right to vote for the board of overseers. The committee advised that another committee be appointed "to prepare and submit to the next legislature a form of act conferring upon the governing boards of the University power to regulate the franchise in the election of members of the board of overseers and in all matters relating to the same...
...corpse arises, and makes a determined effort to escape. A new arrival prevents this, but Dorine seizes a physician's robe and gives it to Crispin, who immediately puts it on. The new arrival proves to be a servant who has come to avail herself of Mirobolan's reputed power as a clairvoyant. Crispin of course has to play the role of the physician, and many absurd complications follow. He finally makes his escape, and is sent at once by Geralde to get the promised money from Lisidor. The latter has meanwhile discovered Geralde's deception, and a stormy scene...
Finally comes the preacher. The power of the pulpit and the preacher has not passed and even preachers of moderate ability can do endless good to their fellow men and to their country. If one has anything worth while to say, one will always find people ready to listen...
...inomotor' for a better development of the body than can be brought about by the old forms of apparatus. This new invention which is a good deal like a sliding rowing seat in appearance, is intended to impel boats, carriages and bicycles by means of arm and leg power. The operator sits on a sliding seat, puts his feet in a sliding boot rest, and grasps a lever in each hand. With a simultaneous use of both legs and body he can send the machine ahead at a great rate of speed, with little expenditure of force. The machine...
...interval between the Old and New Testaments the social customs of the Jews remained, and they had always some power of enforcing them...