Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, on June 21, pontoons, cables, and all were in readiness, and the Squalus was lifted. But again there was disaster: "The bow came up like a mad tornado, out of control. Pontoons were smashed, hoses cut, and, I might add, hearts were broken...
...will be some time before the Allies will be forced to import heavily from the United States, according to the international trade authority. If the Allies should buy large supplies of war materials from this country, he foresees a centralized purchasing agency here under Allied, and perhaps American, control...
...issues already confused by misleading propaganda, why not study the nature of war itself? What conditions are necessary to cause this phenomenon which makes men kill their own kind? Perhaps it only requires a single man to bring about such a catastrophe; perhaps factors over which humans have no control are involved. The answer to this question alone should go far toward helping him decide between intervention and isolation...
Opposing Ruffing in the opener at Yankee Stadium before an expected throng of 60,000, weather permitting, will be Paul Derringer, the Reds' lofty righthander, who finished the season with 10 straight victories. Derringer's forte is control. He walked only 35 men in 301 innings during the National League season. His low-breaking curve is one of the toughest pitches in baseball...
...this view naive to say the least. They would hear in the booming guns along the Saar merely the clash of rival imperialisms. And they would see in Mr. Chamberlain's devious line of march from appeasement to war merely a crass game of power politics gone beyond his control. But Mr. Greene might be left to his charitable thoughts were it not for their alarming implications. For if they are true, is it not imperative that America once more go to war for the defense of human liberties and of democracy...