Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been to make him an offensive as well as a defensive weapon. He has found his new position more natural to him. D'Autremont is a sound player with three years of experience behind him, but is handicapped by a lack of speed. Rousmaniere's chief asset is his control over the soccer ball which makes him especially adept at passing. A versatile player, he shifts to the forward line when Barnes comes into the game...
...Lowell's letter asserted that the embargo is "practically hostile to the belligerents that control the sea" and further stated that no neutrality legislation could "absolutely prevent the possibility of events that might cause our citixens to regard war as less evil than the alternative presented by some belligerent...
...line Party members well know Charles Dirba, a blue-eyed, stoop-shouldered, middle-aged Lett, conscientious, able, hard-working who for years has run the Communist Control Commission that passes on expulsions from the Party. When one comrade wishes to denounce another comrade, he writes out his charges, sends them to Comrade Dirba. Comrades may denounce each other as police spies, wreckers, Trotskyites, Lovestoneites, grafters, stool pigeons, for spreading stories about the central committee, for social fascism, for individualism, for anti-Party tendencies, for rotten liberalism, rotten intellectualism, conciliationism, for having personal relations with Trotskyites, for white chauvinism, for Zionism...
Another example of the newspaper artist at a high peak of excellence is Clifford McBride, creator of "Napoleon and Uncle Elby." His ability to express real with by men as of the drawings themselves, together with his subtle control over line in order to bring out character, can be equaled by no other artist in this particular field. It is not my intention to establish these men as great artists; they are, however, worth special notice because they are craftsmen who can be placed in a category well above that of the simple illustrator. It is well to remember...
...were originally accepted for the Pilot Training; 10 have already dropped out, and instructors in the course expect to lose a few more before training with dual control begins...