Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit which had kept house unit number two, beyond McKinlock Hall, from rising above its foundations was dropped by the plaintiff yesterday. The case, which was due to come up in court this morning, was an attempt to restrain Harvard University by injunction from raising a building which would obscure a view of the Charies from a house owned by the plaintiff in the vicinity of Memorial Drive...
...Bird lavished all his paternal feeling on humorless grandson Morgan. Yet when Morgan wanted to go to the War, the Colonel did not restrain, rather he encouraged him. Morgan returned with a French bride. Soon after, Prohibition and its consequent troubles forced old Bird to set his distillery afire. Soon after that he died. Morgan opened a grocery store. Bird home became a Hebrew orphan asylum. Thus ends the pointless tale...
Thou wert fair in the fearless old fashion, And thy limbs are as melodies yet, And move to the music of passion With lithe and lascivious regret. What ailed us, O gods, to desert you For creeds that refuse and restrain? Come down and redeem us from virtue, Our Lady of Pain...
...rate, then reporting "no announcement.'' It formally announced that "when it [the board] finds that conditions . . . obstruct Fed eral Reserve Banks in . . . so managing credit facilities as to accommodate commerce and business, it is its duty . . . to take measures to correct them; which, in the immediate situation means to restrain the use of Federal Reserve credit facilities in aid of the growth of speculative credit." For months no more was heard. Brokers and speculators forgot. Last week when the Federal Reserve Board went into a conference, expected to last three or four days, few noticed it and fewer guessed...
...month ago Buyers Hall & Lavarre came to disagreement over control of their journals. A split followed, Buyer Hall asking for an injunction against his one-time partner to restrain him from obtaining operating control. Buyer Lavarre threatened to "disclose" all negotiations with the power company unless the injunction was withdrawn. The injunction still pending, amicable settlement of Hall-Lavarre differences had not been made last week...