Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks to democracy that Britain has been able to control that continuous and almost insensible adaptation between progress and tradition which has permitted her to transform all her institutions while remaining faithful to herself? Is it not thanks to democracy that the United States has been able to bring about a prodigious economic renewal in a few years without compromising legal order for a single instant, without going outside the framework of the Constitution elaborated just after the War of Independence by American disciples of Montesquieu and Rousseau? "No, democracy does not emerge condemned by the long trial waged against...
...Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost his General Motors shirt ($120,000,000) in 1920. The Durant car, with which he planned to recoup his fortunes in 1921, is no longer made. When Asbury Park, N. J. newshawks discovered unsinkable, 74-year...
...task of making himself a good officer for his men. Written with a matter-of-fact detachment, it occasionally rises to rhetorical heights, as when Sassoon describes the mental hospital, where the shell-shocked patients were cheerful and normal curing the days. But at night "they lost control and the hospital became sepulchral and oppressive with saturations of War experience. . . . One became conscious that the place was full of men whose slumbers were morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare...
Though Bob Scott and George Phillips played capably in spots, the halfbacks also reflected the teams's general uncertainly in ball control and slowness in passing...
...Boyle II, 1936, in "Miseries and Vanities" winks and blinks and nods at several aspects of Harvard Society. He smiles at Mr. Schlesinger's rally for democracy, but too often does he bemuse when he means to be gay. He has a gift for phrase; and, when under control, he communicates his point, quote: "If only all students were 'great men', all would be well. But alas, many are not, and in them indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests. The reaction...