Word: restrainedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chancellor Lindley, who successfully applied for a temporary injunction (later quashed by the state Supreme Court) to restrain the Governor, countercharged that he had been obliged to fight the Governor for most of the latter's two-year term by resisting his attempts to foist upon the University his political friends at the expense of tried and faithful servants...
Even the damp frigidity of a Cambridge winter cannot restrain the university from breaking forth into fresh excitement. The newest panic is that of red "circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist...
Last week, there arrived for the unveiling ceremony Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the ex-President. Such was the enthusiastic welcome given her that she could not for a moment restrain the tears that coursed naturally down her cheeks. Mrs. Roosevelt and her party were met at Havana, the capital, by President Zayas, his ministers and General Enoch H. Crowder, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...logical that students be brought into contact with the doctrines of the Legion and the Federation and with all doctrines. As long as organizations restrain themselves to the presentation of their programs simply as evidence in an undecided case, there can be no quarrel with their function. Unfortunately, organized bodies are possessed of no such altruism. Their chief interest seems to lie not in teaching students to think clearly but in teaching them to think as the organizations themselves think. Progress can never come if the force of young minds is consistently turned into certain preconceived channels. The Public School...
When the prizes were distributed, Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt II could not restrain a smile, several smiles. Horse Sarazen was her horse. Pierre Wertheimer smiled too, but a bit grimly. His Epinard had failed him again, for second money does not become "the finest horseflesh of France...