Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole aspect of our institutions is much more academic than is the aspect of American universities. We have strict rules which restrain the conduct of students, and so our students are rarely the subjects of the same sort of caricature that is found in humorous publications here...
Last week, four Congressional districts in Missouri, unable to restrain their fervor, began to boom Senator Reed for President. In Livingston county, where once the name of Mr. Reed was anathema, they said: "The most commanding figure in the greatest deliberative body in the world, we indorse him as Missouri's candidate for President of the U. S." In his home town (Kansas City), they said: "He has a horror of corruption."* Democrats from coast to coast perked their ears, pondered on that impressive 64-year-old figure of Senator Reed. They thought of the year 1928; remembered that...
...death. I felt like writing to TIME and telling to TIME how I felt, but I said to myself "TIME has no place for little boys" and I dropped the subject, but when I read the letter of Karl Busch [TIME, June 7, LETTERS] I could not restrain. I say: Let Busch have his own opinion, everyone has, but it is my opinion that not many will agree with Mr. Busch...
More probable is it that the moderates will restrain the legal offensive against labor even as they have restricted the direct attack. In trade unions when they apply themselves only to local conditions, one finds a valuable counter-irritant to capitalism. In the matter of hours and wages, the union aids in striking a fair balance with the employer...
...difficult in reviewing Brahms' Requiem to restrain superlatives, and although it seems customary to bar any superlative but a negative from a critic's vocabulary, the reviewer must ask pardon in this case...