Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...about 1 o'clock in the kitchen in the rear of the wooden frame building, and before the firemen arrived had worked its way between the partitions and into the blind attic above, so that they had a long task before they were certain that they had it under control. It was not until between 6 and 7 o'clock that the engines were finally recalled. The danger is estimated at between...
Princeton has declared itself in favor of continuing athletics during the war. The specification has been made, however, that sports will be maintained only as a means of military training. It was at a meeting of the Board of Athletic Control held last week, at which the athletic policy of the university during the coming season was proposed for discussion, that the members of the board expressed themselves in favor of proceeding with all the branches of athletics. The board also expressed its approval of continuing intercollegiate sports throughout the country, with, however, less expense than has prevailed heretofore...
Under the powers granted him by the Act of 1916, however, the President was not able alone to carry out all the provisions of the scheme of Government control which he proposed; he had the power to take over the management of the roads, but he did not have the power to compensate them as he thought just, according to the average of their receipts for the years 1915, 1916 and 1917. This power was placed in the hands of Congress, to whom the President has now turned for such additional legislation as will enable him to carry through...
...sane world, "freedom of the sea" means what it did to Grotius: Beyond the shallows of the shore no nation claims control. To an obstinate old man, obsessed with that German war mania that has cost the world so much blood and so many tears, it means that in time of war no nation must have a sea power superior to Germany's or capable of coping with German aggression. Yet when Germans solemnly protest that they are fighting for the freedom of the seas, it is the Tirpitz kind of freedom that they have in mind. New York World...
That monstrous doctrine would destroy Belgium and cripple France. It involves internationalization of the Suez Canal, as frankly avowed by the Naval League champions, so that German submarines might make use of it also in war. It means that the military control of the Panama Canal would be given over to Germany...