Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River, which enters the Mississippi. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court. To Illinois' aid came Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. These co-defendants maintained that Mississippi Valley navigation had been benefited by the extra flow from Lake Michigan more than Great Lakes navigation had been hurt...
...appeal suit brought by the Mexican Petroleum Co. (a subsidiary of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co., controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana) to restrain the Mexican Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor from canceling the oil drilling permits of the company (which the ministry had already done), the Supreme Court of Mexico passed judgment in favor of the U. S. concern...
...question was: How will intense, unconventional, efficient and sometimes impatient Mr. Morrow of New York City get along with easygoing, inefficient, procrastinating Mr. Tomorrow of Mexico City? Will Mr. Morrow restrain his inclination to hurry Mr. Tomorrow on such a matter as defining and settling U. S. oil land titles in Mexico? Will the Mexicans be offended if he interrupts their siestas with statistics? Or are modern Mexicans susceptible to amiable prompting? Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border...
...article, they sped to Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Would Rear Admiral Magruder be disciplined? Secretary Wilbur could not yet say. While he was poring over the article and having its statements checked up, the correspondents sent off despatches citing two paragraphs from the Navy regulations, which restrain officers from publishing Navy secrets and oblige them, in any case, to file copies of anything they may publish with the Secretary of the Navy...
...Subscriber Singer restrain his praise. The August 1 & August 8 issues of TIME were compiled and edited in Cleveland; the August 15 issue in Manhattan. -ED. Major General Nichols...