Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these is above the coach's low centre of gravity, the tendency of the body roll on curves is inward instead of outward as on an ordinary car. Airplane fashion, the car banks into the curve, vastly increasing both comfort and steadiness. Lateral and horizontal restraint of the body is achieved by rubberized links between the inside end of the trucks and the lower portion of the car's body. Result is a full-size passenger coach whose floor is 30 in. above the rails instead of 4¼ ft.; whose roof is u ft. instead...
...Egyptian patriot, will you not keep your Greenshirts from rioting during the tourist season?" Mahmoud agreed. Since then Cairo's tourist season has been almost completely free of riots, but the new Premier's henchmen have redoubled their efforts in other ways. This patriotic restraint has not affected the Fascistic zealotry of the new Premier and his followers, best exemplified by some of their propaganda slogans...
...Actor King makes him pitiable in his final, bewildered defeat. Back from playing the ancient High Lama in Hollywood's Lost Horizon, Sam Jaffe is expertly repulsive and yet appealing as Nils Krogstad, the blackmailer who gets Nora in his clutches. Also from Hollywood, Paul Lukas acts with restraint and beauty the doomed Doctor Rank who faces his own death with tragic calm...
...TIME yield to the temptation to publish the "sneak" photograph and the write-up about Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh? [TIME, Dec. 13] Many readers would have appreciated and applauded greater self-restraint...
Labor Relations. As if so much restraint in treating Franklin Roosevelt moved them to let off steam in another's direction, the delegates to the Congress said and did little on the subject of Labor that would inspire confidence in William Green, much less in John L. Lewis...