Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only means yet discovered of reaching high altitudes is offered by the rocket, with which scientific men have hesitated to experiment. They feel sure they will lose professional caste, be branded as cranks who are attempting to go to the moon. To curb such gossip rocketeers hive been more emphatic than most in insisting on the impossibility of a moon journey...
...theatrical managers can clearly establish that they are in no way involved in ticket graft and have taken definite steps to abolish it." Thus, last week, the League of New York Theatres signalized the fact that it had allied 80% of all Broadway theatres in an effort to curb the rapacity of theatre ticket scalpers. Under the aegis of Producer Arthur Hopkins (president) and Alfred Emanuel Smith (board member), the League had persuaded 16 ticket brokers to subscribe to its principles: 1) not less than 25% of all orchestra seats must be saleable at the box office; 2) a maximum...
...Chief's untimely curiosity, had "warned" him by cashiering his right-hand man, Under-Commissar of War Yosiph Unshlikht, who was then transferred to a seat on the Soviet Economic Council. If the Commissar of War wants to keep his own job. correspondents averred, he must curb his curiosity...
...type are doubtless too thick-skinned to appreciate the torture their infantile fun inflicts upon others, especially him who "was just getting to sleep." Perhaps, indeed, consideration for other people is something a little beyond their ken. But is it too much to hope that the engine, roarers will curb their childish selfishness after eleven o'clock at night, during examinations? Gregory Smith 2G.B...
Maybe when the Whalen trained youth don the blue of authority, they will remember their college days. It behooves us to learn the police words. Then when an irate cop orders us to drive over to the curb we can wait till he comes alongside and then swing into the stirring chorus...