Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other point of view would have been unthinkable for a man of Dr. Conant's well known liberal views. The old saying has been applied to him that he is tolerant of everything except intolerance. No one has more vigorously fought for academic freedom and resisted efforts to curb free speech or civil libertics. Such a man, obviously, would not sanction the discharge of instructors from the university staff simply because some of their public statements had aroused criticism. It is well that, in the case in point, he has used the occasion more to drive home clemental truths which...
...most important Dominion industry outside of agriculture. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, now merged with its old mining rival, not only outstrips the Montreal market in dollar-volume of trading but also exceeds every exchange in North America except New York's "Big Board" and the Curb Exchange. In number of shares traded it even tops the Curb...
...King's aim has been perfectly consistent . . . to curb the excessive powers of local government, which were usually exercised for selfish, and often for seditious ends, and to systematize the judiciary...
...newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley, and only by an attack on his influence in the back wards will the career of King James be halted. Two ways are open to the people of Boston who wish to curb the magnificent power for evil that a Mayor possesses; either the government or the party machines can be changed...
Major U. S. track meets seldom fail to produce a world's record. Last week's produced three: 8:48.6 for the 3,000-metre steeplechase, by Indiana's Tommy Deckard; 1:59.7 for the 1,000-metre medley relay, by the New York Curb Exchange team; and 6 ft. 9¼ in. for the high jump-only ½ in. lower than the outdoor world's record, held jointly by Negroes Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton-by Marquette's Negro Sophomore Edward Burke, handicapped by a slightly twisted knee...