Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life", cease to be the specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters of distracting niaterialism and ultimate inefficiency...
...watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property. The little tramp ran away and dodged into a big tent where there was a circus. Here he amused the spectators by his foolishness, got a job as property man, amused more audiences by his inept efforts to control his props. He fell in love with the circus proprietor's daughter, attempted to fake a tight-rope act, got nibbled by monkeys, ran away, helped the circus proprietor's daughter to marry a competent tight-rope walker. Then the little tramp, gay and forlorn, walked away down...
...nineteenth century Europe had begun to expect a more reasonable, not to say more Christian attitude on the part of the papacy toward the long established churches which had thrown off papal control and by their history of service and sacrifice had demonstrated that...
...newspapers themselves must work out some control of their news columns that will prevent them from playing the game of the clever defendant and his unscrupulous associates...
...final and most important step is to restore the right of the judge to control the jury trial and to give the jury the benefit of his advice on the facts. The trial should be by a judge with a jury, and not by a jury before a judge...