Word: restrainedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been so frequently observed that the ex-administration of a university is also a profession of marked and distinguishing characteristics. An ex-president is more than a retired educator. He is a philosopher. He has passed, not out, but up. Free from the limitations which restrain a man who can never speak publicly in his private capacity, but retaining the prestige which the representation of a great university gives, the President Emeritus acquires an influence which not even former Presidents of the Republic enjoy. Former Presidents are such because they have been supplanted. Presidents Emeriti occupy their position because they...
...most sensational development so far in the sugar scandal is the perpetual injunction petitioned for by the Government to restrain the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and the Sugar Clearing Association from carrying on any more speculative dealings in sugar. The injunction petition bears the signatures of Attorney General Daugherty, Solicitor General James M. Beck and five assistants representing the highest legal talent in the Government, and aims to " make the gamblers in sugar remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table...
...there may be another advance because the present rates are still below market rates. The rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should be as high as the minimum rate on loans in the New York market. Such an advance would not check business activity but would restrain somewhat undue expansion of an inflated nature...
...second place, today's announcement that fifty per cent of the undergraduate applications for the Yale game are to be reduced by lot, makes it difficult to restrain an outburst of honest wrath. Since words will not make more seats we are forced to be content in offering two suggestions to make the blow a little less intolerable...
...apologies in the world, however, could not restrain us, while we were reading the "Tales", from entertaining an almost irresistible impulse to give the author a sound paddling and send him off to bed. If he were not so blatantly precocious, so proudly puerile and so egotistically devilish, he might be bearable for the space of an hour. But he is--and consequently...