Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time for people to stop cursing the recognized labor leaders; in them the immediate destiny of the nation rests. Given public support, they will be able to restrain their bolting subordinates. But if this support is not given, the country is laying itself open to radical inroads, leading we know not where...
...Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our Allies can hardly restrain the accusing finger at our "peculiar American practice of lynching." When it was considered that President Wilson might intervene in Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching, while only this...
...limit arbitrarily a man's capacity for work, to restrain ability, is non-congruent with the ideals and aims of Harvard. An undergraduate may go whither his powers lead him; no cage is placed about him. Our sister universities sacrifice the individual for the entire group, when, if they would but seek them, tasks for all would be found, without limiting the exceptional undergraduate...
...wish to be fair in this approaching struggle between beauty and beast. But unfortunately we can predict the victor and we cannot restrain our inner feelings of commiseration when the poor old Tiger passes out at the count...
...this world of strife, there was never greater need of sober thought than now. Let us control rather than restrain our wonderful vitality, now bordering closely upon the hysterical, by a serious consideration of things as they are. Let us not turn deaf ears to advisers who know of what they speak. We owe it to our soldiers that they may go forth not less bravely but with open and determined minds, realizing that it is to battle and not to sport they go. This war is not one of headlines and billheads, it is man against man in deadly...