Word: constrainer
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History as truth interested Dumas, but did not constrain him. "It is permissible to violate history," he said, "on condition that you have a child by her." When people asked him how he produced such a never-ending succession of novels, plays, stories, Dumas said: "Ask a plum tree how it produces plums...
...would be unfortunate, however, if this temporary, one-year "inbreeding" of the Freshman class should constrain its members from going into any of the larger activities of the College. After all, the Freshman year is in a sense only a prelude to the following three, and some participation in general College affairs is necessary for a clear perspective and adequate preparation for upperclass years. And moreover, Freshman institutions, under the annual impact of new incumbents, can never hope to attain the solidity and continuity of some of the wider College organizations...
...their toughest and most ticklish problems. Twenty-two million people are on the dole in one form or another. They cost State and Federal Governments $180.000.000 a month. And they are producing a quarter of a million children a year. Relief administrators want to use scientific birth control to constrain that impoverished sixth of the population but have done nothing openly for fear of the Roman Catholic Church...
Statistics on suicide are, from the nature of the deed; never complete. Fear of God and the insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...
...Bolivia, Flyer LeBrix could constrain himself no longer. It was at the French minister's reception to them, and before that formal throng he loudly complained that his companion was making himself the hero of the flight. The Latins there were vexed with his apparent unmannerliness...