Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pitching has been done chiefly by Paine, who has been in the box four out of five games. He has proved far more effective than ever before on account of his coolness and his good control. Although he has been batted hard at times, the hits have generally been well scattered...
...regulation for the discretionary regulation by local excise boards.- (a) It defines those who may engage in the traffic and the exact terms under which they may do so, disqualifying.- (1) aliens, (2) criminals, (3) violators of its provisions.- (b) It renders useless the formation of liquor rings to control the excise board.- (c) It makes those engaged in the traffic independent of parties or rings so long as they comply with the law.- (d) It takes the question of high or low license out of municipal politics by fixing the amount...
These members will at once succeed the '96 members in control of all the affairs of the society...
...toll to a height which would be prohibitory.- (c) The canal would be disadvantageous to the United States in time of war: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) If neutral, it would facilitate the operations of a hostile navy.- (2) If controlled by the United States, that control could not be maintained in time of war.- (x) The canal would be at the mercy of the strongest of the contesting powers...
...Control of the canal by the United States would be inexpedient.- (a) It would involve a breach of the Clayton. Bulwer treaty: L. M. Keasby in Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. Science, Jan., 1896, p. 21.- (b) No rights of exclusive control have been conceded to the United States by Nicaragua: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) The treaty of 1867 gave only the right to build the canal.- (c) European powers would not permit exclusive control by the United States: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., '96).- (1) As is shown...