Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government's inability to convert it into long term bonds, the indictment against the people is even worse. We no longer have more money than time. We are up to our ears in debt, refuse to face the facts, and are spending lavishly. It is always difficult to curb and sacrifice. That is why people are talking today so glibly of redistribution and dispossession. The rearrangement of two lines never made a triangle; only the creation of new assets will be able to pay off our debt incurred during the war. This requires greater efficiency on the part...
...features of our government--extravagance. The majority of thinking Americans would agree with him in favoring this budget. But we have become so hardened to the accusation of extravagance, and the idea of thrift seems to have gone so thoroughly out of fashion, that all reform which aims to curb unproductive expenditure is regarded in much the same light as an umbrella on a clear...
...Certain curb brokers have recently been offering to students stocks of a highly speculative character, which, judged by the flamboyant literature that has been liberally distributed, would appear singularly attractive. Investigation of those interested in the promotion of these ventures does not disclose anything to inspire confidence. Absolutely no proof of the merit of these stocks is advanced beyond the usual hyperboles and vague insinuations of the salesmen who are part and parcel of the schemes...
...doing all this time? They were looking on while Stephen was slain. They were counselling Socrates to back down. They were reluctantly counselling religious toleration only when it was expedient. They were holding tight to the cherished institution of the property qualification for suffrage. They were trying merely t curb the institution of slavery, until a man rose up and said "A house divided against itself cannot stand." They were issuing the ridiculous Viborg Manifesto and trying to work though a emasculated Douma. They were saying in March, 1917, "this revolution cannot last fifteen days." They are saying...
...away with unsolicited advice--every day on the Curb has a dozen Waterloos--we only hope that our "little Corporals" will save carfare so that they can come to Saint Helena and play squash...