Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fifth when Stephens and Hardy singled and Kerr made a misplay on a hit from Ward's bat. Team A scored their second run in the next inning when Delano, who had been pitching a good game for the substitutes in the first five innings, lost his control and passed four men, but pulled himself together after one run had been scored, and caused Boyd to fly out to centre field with three men on bases...
...great difficulty in trying to control the spread of German measles is due to the fact that these early symptoms are often so mild that the doctor is not consulted until the appearance of the rash, and meantime the individual has pursued without restraint his daily interests--which, may have included the theatre or a dance--spreading the contagion everywhere he goes...
Against the validity of the act is the fundamental principle of the social order that industry and commerce shall be run by managers competitively selected and wielding the power which comes from the control of privately owned property rather than by the flats of legislators politically influenced and selected. The fact that the act fixes wages instead of leaving it to the free contract of the parties violates this principle. On the other hand, it is equally a fundamental principle of the social order that information shall be obtainable for use by the government, the parties in interest...
Professor Wiener expressed recently the opinion that the Russian army is now for the first time in its history in the control of the government. He believes that the new cabinet contains some of the best men of Russia...
...Norris's "Sacrament," shows a fine earnestness of feeling and a style in keeping with the spirit. But on the imaginative side it is not thoroughly wrought out. The figures at the end of the octave for example do not seem to be quite clearly conceived. And is "control" the right word in the eleventh line, or has the author yielded to the exigency of rime...