Search Details

Word: controller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

After that unsteady first frame, Phelan had the game well under control, bearing down whenever men were on base so that the Elis were never again able to bunch more than one run in any inning. The side-arm pitcher showed a good fast ball and change of pace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Nine Scores 10-5 Win Over Yale | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...nothing but a prep school for the Daughters of the American Revolution; Leaguers play around the fringes of social work; they spend at one party what many a family lives on for a whole year; they could be criticized for not cleaning up politics, for not working for birth control, for not admitting Negroes as members; he never saw them anywhere except on Florida beaches or at dog shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Ladies of Leisure | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Baldish, pug-faced "Ugly" Barratt has been chief of the R. A. F. in France since last January, when, as a sop to Army chiefs who demanded control of the air arm, the Air Ministry picked him as the best expert on Army cooperation problems. Under him are two commands, Army Cooperation and the Advance Striking Force. One cooperates with the British Expeditionary Force, the other with the French Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: R. A. F. Against Odds | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Great Britain discontinued its contraband control bases at Weymouth in the south and The Downs on the southeast English coast, removed all but a skeleton staff from the control base at Kirkwall in the Orkneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Blockade Moves West | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...length, but it is not certain whether these are bundles of genes, or whether the genes occupy spaces between the segments. It is generally assumed that the genes are single big protein molecules, but that is not certain either. And the mechanism of the genes' heredity control remains obscure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fly's Eye | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

First | Previous | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | Next | Last