Word: restrainable
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...water, however, the two heads restrain their selfishness. While one or the other feeds under water, the other head keeps above water and does the breathing...
Organized medicine is slowly, deliberately hoisting young Birth Control astride its broad old back. The New York Academy of Medicine, which subtly is striving for spokesmanship of the U. S. profession, last week formally stated that it wants lifted all laws which restrain physicians from imparting birth control information; and that medical schools and hospital clinics should teach contraceptive methods. Argument: contraception, long a fact and now a spreading practice, should be placed under highest-grade medical control...
...Manhattan a Federal judge heard a petition by Katz Underwear Co. to restrain "Katz" Pajamas, Inc. from the use of its corporate name. The judge denied the petition. But he remarked: "Some advantage accrued to the plaintiff through currency of the popular expression 'cat's pajamas,' indicating extreme approval...
...front of the house" said Mrs. Corel. "They bark and howl. We tried to grow plants in window boxes but the dogs would not let them alone. . . . The dogs of neighbors destroyed the trees and shrubbery in front of the house and the dogs' owners would not restrain them...
...second thorn concerns the act of Gillette directors in selling stock to the company at a price far in excess of the present market. A group of minority stockholders sued for damages because of this, threatened to restrain the merger until they were assured that approval of the deal does not waive the directors' liability. The directors claim that all but one have taken back the stock at the same price the company paid, that the single exception is King Camp Gillette, who last week was too ill to be approached on the subject...