Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference he said the President was "not very happy." He was convinced that the pending bill was a Treasury raid embracing "every proposal, like the creek that happens to be out of doors when it rains." A veto loomed unless the House Flood Control Committee could be persuaded to restrain its generosity to the $400,000,000 or so total cost which the Administration thinks is all the U. S. Treasury can stand...
When Governor Fuller heard about it, he explained to Representative Treadway: "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters. I must tell him to restrain his boyish enthusiasm...
...miles from its previous channels. So late as 1852 its waters principally flowed into the Yellow Sea at a point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage canals have been dug. Even so the titanic Wet Dragon has escaped taming by Chinese methods...
...bounded toward her, butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran away as rapidly as possible. The ram followed her, again butted her. Mrs. Arthur N. Presmont ran around a tree; the ram followed her, twice butted her. At last the crew of a passing automobile truck came to restrain the ram. Bruised & exhausted, Mrs. Presmont said: "I was terrified. But its a glorious good thing...
Riots Continue. Although more than 400 of the student rioters were arrested when they returned by train to Bucharest and Jassy, last week, dispatches continued to report sporadic outbursts against Jews. At Jassy itself the police were not able to restrain friends of the imprisoned students who "demonstrated" by invading a synagog, while the congregation was at prayer and thrashing 30 Jews & Jewesses. When at Bucharest the arrested students were searched, their pockets were found crammed with loot, and around the waists of many young women students were discovered up to half a dozen pairs of silk stockings which they...