Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other glands teamed up. (The thyroid keeps them steamed up.) If the pituitary gland does not supply the secretions which the body needs, doctors in some cases can remedy the deficiency by administering manufactured extracts. In case of too much ''secretion, extracts of other glands restrain the overactive pituitary. Sometimes a brain surgeon can cut out a piece of the gland and thus reduce its output...
Though he was letting down the bars of the anti-trust laws that industries might coalesce to regulate prices and wages, the President promised to "stand firmly against monopolies that restrain trade and price-fixing which allows inordinate profits or unfairly high prices. . . . I am fully aware that wage increases will eventually raise costs, but I ask that managements give first consideration to the improvement of operating figures by greatly increased sales to be expected from the rising purchasing power of the public. That is good economics and good business. . . . If we now inflate prices as fast...
...This was the incident which last week started the liveliest baseball fight in years. Players from both teams rushed out on the field. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington caught Chapman after he had taken a few punches at Myer. Umpires George Moriarty and Harry Geisel managed to restrain other players before the fight became general. They ordered Myer and Chapman off the field...
...German people should desert us, that will not restrain us!" he roared in a Berlin speech which timid Press censors first suppressed. "Whatever happens we will take the course that is necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany...
...University is in a good position to help and advise students wishing to transfer. In any case, it is to be hoped that the authorities will not attempt to restrain individuals capable of judging for themselves. Something in the nature of an advisory board for transfer students would be the best solution of the problem. At least the University should desist from creating unnecessary obstacles to this important branch of education...