Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of the picture becomes less inviting when it becomes obvious that the opium habit is destined to spread amazingly under the stimulus of cheapened drugs. To believe that the future manufacturer of opium will be more amenable to government control than the present poppy farmer is highly optimistic. A vested interest of the West will merely replace a vested interest of the East...
...Geneva met the representatives of 42 nations to propose, discuss, pass or reject resolutions framed to control the international traffic in arms and other munitions...
...Barbee, the twirling ace of the Harvard Freshmen, had been slightly spiked in covering first base in the next inning and had been forced to retire. Linscott replaced him in the box against his former Alma Mater and, although another run slipped across in the seventh frame, he had control of the situation at all times, striking out eight men in the six innings...
...what we want most" includes not only individual interests but group interests. What do we intend to do about education, about our form of government, about the control and development of industry about immigration, poverty, crime, disease? Every man takes some part, or refuses to take a part, in forming our social policies in these matters. At elections in professional and trade associations, in church activities, these problems confront us. No one can escape the results of social policies about the criminal law, the housing regulations in cities, the management of the public schools. Therefore social ethics is concerned with...
During these balmy Spring afternoons when all nature contrives to make it hard to study, another condition, natural enough to be sure, but unlike the others, subject to human control, adds to the students' difficulties. The nice green grass in the Yard, and its general park-like appearance attract throngs of happy children to gambol and frolic up and down the steps of Widener and all about the buildings, filling the air with their merry shouts and laughter. Nothing is more truly delightful than the spontaneous merriment of children, but innocent and pleasing as it may be, a library where...