Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paced by Bill McSweeney and Lee Bird with 15 and 14 points respectively, were never headed as they jumped into an immediate edge and widened this into a 28 to 18 margin a half-time. Much of their success was due to the fact that they were able to control the rebounds off of both backboards...
...were affixed to a petition demanding a marriage course; that, in itself, means nothing. It is possible to get two hundred students to sign anything, except possibly a Crimson poll. But a course on marriage has its serious aspects. Harvard has already experimented in this field with the Birth Control hoax and a course called Hygiene I. The former was discontinued because the doors were locked, the latter because the students seemed to be well aware of the purely sexual problems involved. Recently several institutions instituted subjects dealing with the sociological elements of marriage; all have proved popular, even...
...Riddle's opinion, the higher vertebrates have a dual control system, the brain and the pituitary. That they are closely associated is shown by the ability of prolactin to produce a psychological phenomenon, maternal behavior. How hormones work on the brain and nervous system remains a stubborn mystery. The fact of their association, however, shows that mind and body are not separate, that a living organism is one "body-mind." Says he: "The mind has been firmly placed in an evolutionary frame. . . . The consciousness of dog and man has evolved . . . in the same unbroken way that the function...
...Seabury investigation of Jimmie Walker. It came out that in 1929 he had given Mayor Walker $26,000 worth of bonds-just after his firm had a hand in a $5,000,000 bond issue for a taxi concern and just before Mayor Walker created a Board of Taxicab Control...
Coster promptly proposed to Mr. Michaels that they fire Mr. Catchings and take joint control of the company. When Mr. Catchings heard about this he wrote to all the directors, urging them to come to Manhattan before the stockholders' meeting in April 1934, and support his recommendation that "there is no further place in the McKesson & Robbins organization for F. Donald Coster...