Word: curbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen. Some claim that it will injure its standing, while others maintain that it will be an aid to keeping interest up. Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place it on a rational basis. The subject is receiving considerable attention at Harvard University, and the daily paper of that college has even suggested that the professional game will do much to accomplish this...
...curb still further the Italian press, the Fascist Government last week, caused the Prefect of Rome to dissolve the Managing Board of the Italian Press Association and replace its members with "loyal Fascists...
...record price for a seat on the New York Curb Market was established last week, when Bartlett H. Hayes sold his membership to Frank J. Hardiman...
...Calvin Coolidge, Honorary Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, opened the Council's nine-day biennial meeting at Washington with an address (see Page 32, RELIGION). ¶ Dust-covered, in a grimy automobile, a Pennsylvanian drove through the streets of Washington and pulled up at the curb to ask directions. A determined-looking, agile little man, with the alert step of a New England Yankee, was walking by. "Hey, there," called the motorist, "where's the White House? Where's the Capitol?" The little man (Calvin Coolidge) appeared to be familiar with Washington geography...
...dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...