Word: controls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well congratulate herself on the ability of her successive premiers to avoid the ill effects of changes in administration. But the day may not be so far distant when President Poincare may feel that the people are demanding Caillaux or some of his dark group or suspicious followers to control their destinies. It devolves upon the Chamber to do away with this risk by maintaining the competent, patriotic men in office, regardless of personal objections. Only thus can it do its full share toward the successful prosecution...
...Italy's war alone. It is the war of all the Allies, and a defeat of one of them is the defeat of all. If the fighting of the war is not coordinated, it is bound to result in local successes by the Germans, who coordinate everything--who control every detail and every portion of their far-flung line from a central and single source. --Boston Transcript...
...circumstances were as follows: Bill arrived in Pau from Avord on Sunday evening, September 11, and on the following morning he reported at the school. He immediately began his training on an 18 metre Nieuport, single control. This was the last type of machine he had flown at Avord and it is the first type taken up at this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres...
...Professor R. N. Corwin, chairman of Yale's board of athletic control, asked me for all the football possible provided it did not interfere with military instruction. He put it squarely before me that Yale looked to me to recommend precisely such athletics as would assist the War Department which I represented...
Professor R. N. Corwin of Yale, chairman of the board of athletic control at that University, who was appointed to arrange a football schedule for the Yale Freshman eleven, has announced the dates of three games in a statement given out recently at New Haven. The first contest will be against Exeter in the Yale Bowl next Saturday, October 20; this will be the first time any Yale athletic team has played an outside opponent since the beginning of the war. The other two games are scheduled with the Harvard Freshmen at Soldiers Field on November 17 and with Princeton...