Word: restrictiveness
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...plant were built, its power would be enough to supply most of New England with light, heat and motivation. Maine has a law against the export of water power manufactured within her borders. But that law is thought only to restrict fresh-water power. At a popular referendum to be held in September, the people of Maine are expected to set the restriction aside from Cooper's Fundy plan. To induce the voters to do this, Mr. Cooper has placarded the state far and wide. Sanctions from the U. S. and Canada will also be forthcoming...
...plea is for a change in the attitude towards studies and for the breaking down of the preeminence of the extra-curriculum activity. I believe that the extra-curriculum activity, as it does little more than restrict the undergraduate's outlook on life and fill him with empty conceit, fails to prepare him for the future. At present, the undergraduate condemns studies in his anxiety to become great in college. But which is more to be desired: fame in college, or fame in later life...
...William H. Geer, director of the Department of Physical Education in the University was lying unconscious at a late hour last night in the Massachusetts General Hospital as a restrict of inhaling monoxide gas from the exhaust of his car at about 9 o'clock yesterday morning...
...fetish of personal liberty to aid him in regaining the right to drink, although this same idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice of authority within which he sits...
...Reorganization of the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration so as to restrict the Shipping Board to its original duties as a semi-judicial, policy-and rate-making body and to segregate in the Emergency Fleet Corporation the business of operating the Government merchant fleet...