Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...find a young man who can act Hamlet. Mme. Gay, however, made up for what freshness, color and tone she may lack by a thoughtful and effective study of the part. Fortunately avoiding any wild excesses of passion, she differed from Farrar's interpretation by giving Carmen more restraint and treachery...
...their places and sang their college hymn. Then they hurried across the field, and, grouping before the Harvard section, cheered for Harvard." While of course Cornell's display of the victor's courtesy was in order and is appreciated, the fallacy in the Tribune's remark as regards the restraint shown in celebrating deserves notice...
...attitude is proper, but this point needs both emphasis and a somewhat clearer formulation, for the benefit of certain members of our body academic who appear to have needed it not. What the University wants, and what America desires, and what the world needs is not mere "understatement and restraint"; the desideratum is that prejudice and passion be understated and restrained, and still more that the facts be stated and lib- erated. Let those whose privilege it is to be possessed of pertinent facts about the situation express them boldly and publish them abroad for our enlightenment; but let those...
...conclusion admitting of no diversity of opinion that with the foreign situation in its present critical position, with the continued neutrality of the United States by no means assured, it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement and restraint rather than of excess and agitation...
...bills relative to the trust question now before Congress have a common weakness in their failure to distinguish between harmless and monopolistic combination. These bills would rule out the element of reason in the judicial interpretation of trust cases, thus making no discrimination between the petty and harmless restraint of trade allowable by late decisions of the Supreme Court, and the large and detrimental monopolies by the more powerful corporations. Such acts would do little toward bettering the situation. The prevention of mere combination is not the solution, and what is really needed is the prevention of harmful trade restraint...