Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Hinkley holds down the seven position. He halls from last year's phenomenal Freshman crew, and since then he has greatly improved his stroke. While in practice he keeps his form well under control, he is apt to shoot his slide a little under the stress of a race. Setting the pace for the second eight is Jack Wilson, who only tips the scale at 167. However, Wilson is strong and extra good on the low strokes. He has a little trouble still when he tries to set the pace for a good sprint...
...Harvard has come Brazil's first appeal for intellectual friendship. Through its consul in Boston, it has offered to establish an institute for the study of Brazilian art, literature, music and Portugese. The professors and the library will be supplied from abroad, but the University will have complete control of administration...
...have been having a hard time smoothing out their stroke according to the Cornell Daily Sun, but a wealth of good material puts them in live in a successful season. Most of the defeats under which the Cornell eight is laboring, such as poor timing and ragged control of the slides, are sings of an early season crew, and they can soon be ironed...
...officeholders, diplomats, the props and supports of the ruling dynasties. Replacing them came, along with the new States, new political organizations employing new methods to realize new social theories. In Russia a brilliant group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control of the former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures like Kurt Eisner or D'Annunzio, trade unionists like Ebert, visionaries like Karolyi, soldiers...
...morale of an unemployed family, a radio is an important bolster. It is the chief recreation of the family group. It is also a means to parental control, keeps children off the streets, even gets them peaceably tucked in nights on the promise that they can "listen in bed." Loss of the radio from unemployed homes in most cases was considered a final, crushing misfortune...