Word: controls
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper, is-was." (TIME, Dec. 25, p. 20). This is (was) beyond me. And I thought I was (is) a sort of authority on the tools of mathematics. Come now, what the hell...
...actually rendered Germany's vaunted sea terror harmless. Said El Dia, which may well have had access to the official Uruguayan commission that examined Spee: "We are authoritatively able to give assurance that the Graf Spee's fighting capacity was almost totally nullified in the battle. Its control tower had been damaged so that its artillery could not be managed. Its ammunition lifter had been paralyzed and heavy shells had to be carried on the shoulders of sailors. Therefore, when Captain Langsdorff ordered it to Montevideo, the ship was practically out of fighting condition...
...politics or religion. ... I love my fellow man, and particularly, the down and out, the socially disinherited and the economically dispossessed. ... I want, therefore, a religion which has a social aspect. ... I have never been a Communist and never will be a Communist. I have very often defended birth control. But I would not do it now; for I have begun to see a spiritual significance of birth...