Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solid men of Boston have solid fortunes to be tapped, but so have the solid men of Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama who have fewer academic traditions to restrain them. Besides, to get a boy to go to one of the football colleges of the south and southwest you have to compensate him for the education he isn't going to get. We doubt that Harvard has the stomach to meet this kind of competition. From the Chicago Daily Tribune, March...
...stupid have a stupid god, the intelligent an intelligent god, the good a good god, the wicked a wicked god. The god of the white men is jealous, selfish and greedy because they themselves are jealous, selfish and greedy . . . The white men's religion is designed to restrain the wickedness of a very wicked people-and a people exceedingly afraid of dying. Their love of their god has been built on their fear of death...
...aliquis scholares ingrediatur tabernas . . . [No students shall enter taverns]" began Oxford's 14th Century rule designed "to further the honest pursuit of studies and to restrain the arrogance of those in whom the energies of their stomachs exceed those of their minds." Since 1355, when carousing Oxonians at the Swyndle-stock Tavern precipitated a three-day riot by hitting their host on the head with a beer tankard, it had been as scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted...
Gladys Swarthout's fiery Carmen was played without the exaggerated gestures common to the Met's gigantic stage; Tenor Robert Rounseville brought a matinée idol's profile to Don José, but obviously had to work hard to restrain the grimaces that ordinarily go with a big voice. Like all the others, Baritone Robert Merrill as Escamillo had to unlearn one of the cardinal rules of opera-taking musical cues from the orchestra leader. The singers set the musical pace of the show because, roaming their nine sets, they were sometimes 200 feet from...