Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question for the Princeton debate was submitted by Harvard and read as follows: "Resolved, That laws be passed compelling the management of a business undertaking which secures control of an industry to sell its product at reasonable rates without discrimination...
...well-trained baseball team knows every possible play, and cannot be taken by surprise, so a trained Jiujitsu wrestler is prepared for every move by his adversary. Each movement is practiced until it is instinctive. The result of the training is that every muscle is as perfectly under control and as readily responsive to the will as the fingers. The body becomes an intelligent organism instead of a machine...
...last half-mile and finished well. The first crew finished at a 32 and 33 stroke in the most encouraging spurt of the season. Early this afternoon the Freshman crew rowed three miles up the river. The form of all the crews shows great improvement and the control of the slides is much better but the blade work is still weak...
...June 9.--Today's practice was the most encouraging since the crews have been here. The four-oar rowed a mile down stream against the tide, in 5 minutes, 50 seconds. The men rowed fairly well together but their time and slide control were ragged. At six o'clock the two University crews and the Freshmen raced down stream. The second dropped out at the Navy Yard, a quarter of a length ahead of the first. At this point the Freshmen were leading by a length and a quarter, and dropped out at the three-mile mark, two lengths ahead...
...crew dropped out at the Navy Yard, four lengths behind the first. At the three-mile mark the Freshmen were two lengths behind and stopped. The first boat rowed over the entire course, finishing with a 28 stroke, in 22 minutes, 30 seconds. A more spirited recovery and better control of the slides were the encouraging features of today's practice...