Word: constraints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages...
...abstention of the Socialist Deputies from the Chamber proceedings merely aggravated a state of enmity between them and the Fascisti; and, with lack of constraint on both sides, it is nothing short of a wonder that more blood has not flowed sideways through perforated veins...
...King sat down (more vivas). The Royal Family then returned to the Palace, many of the Senators and Deputies left immediately, but some of the young and ardent Fascisti had not finished. As soon as the wheels of the royal coaches had started to revolve, their constraint vanished and with relief akin to that felt after the passage of a thunderstorm they volleyed the Fascist hymn Giovinezza...
...Gray, in stating that American colleges have not been subjected to the rending forces that have torn intellectual Europe, is undeniably correct; but he does not carry his proposition through to its logical conclusion. The resentment at things as they are and the desperate desire for freedom from constraint, which to his mind make the attitude of the European student more promising than the unquestioning conformity of the young American, are induced by a set of most abnormal conditions, and must therefor partake somewhat of abnormality themselves. Realizing that conditions in Europe are far from healthy, Dr. Gray assumed...
Fortunately, the Republicans will be able to approach the question without constraint since it is now definitely known that President Wilson made no promises at the Peace Conference concerning cancellation of war debts. Nevertheless the air today is full of just such proposals for straightening out the economic situation. Great Britain is considering the cancellation of her loans, amounting to some nine billions, in the event that we take a similar step. As she owes us approximately four billions, her not loss will be about five billions, against our ten; but when it is remembered that our population and wealth...