Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men will line up with Captain R. P. Outerbridge '28 at number one, A. C. Lane '27 at number two, and J. F. Davidson '27 as number three man, while R. P. Outerbridge, J. F. Davidson and R. T. Lord '27 will wield the epees...
...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
...campaign: Governor Smith: "The fathers and mothers of New York resent Mr. Hearst's interference in the politics of this city, because the example of his life is such as to make it undesirable that our youth be impressed with the fact that a man like him can wield any considerable amount of political influence in any community...
Having learned to wield the saddle-maker's awl and, in his spare time, the pen, he forsook his trade, went to Bremen and became a journeyman. In Bremen, as is most of Germany's seaports, Socialism was finding hospitable entertainment in the hearts and minds of the common people. Young Ebert soon became identified with the Socialists and was to be seen most Sundays haranguing crowds on the merits of Marxian philosophy* but for all his energy he passed for a man of mediocre ability...
...general cause of the dispute is inherent in the political chaos which besets China. The Tuchuns, who exercise almost sovereign power in their Provinces, are split up in many factions, due largely to personal jealousies. The immense power which the Tuchuns wield is naturally the greatest obstacle to the reunification of China. China as such is internationally little more than a geographical expression. Nothing short of a civil war between the Centre under Gen. Wu, "biggest man in China," the South under Dr. Sun Yatsen, and the North under Marshal Chang can ever clear away the political strife which...