Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortitude, mein Frau, fortitude", said the husband tenderly embrasing her, and ignoring the trenchant sobs of his children, which now rend the air with renewed vigor. "Suffer we must for the cause of education, so long as Imbecilic editors control its destinies. Soon will come a change, and the latent craving of youth for knowledge will once more be aroused in spite of those who would stifle this yearning forever...
Having recited in Manhattan what he thought Government should not do in business, he recited in the Coliseum at St. Louis what he thought it should do. It was a generalized speech on waterways, "adequate" Road control, an "adequate" tariff, and "understanding" Federal farm board. It was loudly cheered...
...glass thinner than tissue paper and permits more electrons to escape from the tube's cathode than does Dr. Coolidge's nickel window. And the new contraption is relatively cheap, available for research laboratories everywhere to experiment with the mightiest rays that man has yet learned to control. Remarkable is the fact that Dr. C. M. Slack, Westinghouse Electric's inventor of the glass window, is only...
British historians, writing of the great post-War recovery, acclaiming the return to the gold standard and the rebuilding of the merchant marine, will deal briefly and reluctantly with the effort to control the rubber markets of the world. The experiment which began Nov. 1, 1922, which ended last week, will be held an economic catastrophe. Hundreds of fortunes were drawn into the maelstrom of its collapse...
Hoover-"the kind of man that has to have complete control in order to do the thing well...