Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 18). Actually, with the President behind him, and with Congress not in session, Mr. Stimson had wielded power of life and death. By persuasion and threats of force* he had compelled the embattled Conservative and Liberal Nicaraguan armies to lay down their arms and submit to U. S. control of Nicaragua until 1928, when the U. S. guarantees to supervise an impartial election...
Last week the general assembly voted to put the Seminary under a single board of control, and heard an investigating committee recommend that Dr. Machen's appointment "be not confirmed." Said Moderator Thompson, his head bowed, his voice faltering: "It is not more theology but more religion that is needed in Princeton." The general assembly applauded...
Pauline Manford shifts the gears, steers the lives of all the others. A woman whose day is divided into minute portions, at the same time a member of the Motherhood League and the Birth Control Society, she makes activity an aim in itself...
...that the principle of student government has come to be generally though not universally accepted, there being some who continue to look upon it as a mere corruption of student privilege and as a detriment to the efficiency of an institution, its regulations and practical control subject themselves to closer investigations. It is in this agency that Princeton undergraduates are proposing certain changes, in the hope that a renovated system will avoid any that a renovated system will avoid any such disturbance as marked the career of the Princeton Student Council during the present year, when it came into strained...
...other important control is the rudder bar, across the cockpit floor, with pedals on each end. To turn the airplane to the right, press on the right pedal; to the left, on the left. Because the whirling of the propeller forces an airplane to the left, an adjustable device has been invented to keep sufficient pressure on the right rudder-pedal to maintain a straight course. But, even with his rudder out of commission, a skilled pilot can manage his plane with his joy stick alone...