Word: restrainingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working for the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he helped regulate the primordial greed of those early monsters of brutal business methods, the railroads. In 1908 he moved from the Interstate Commerce Commission to New York State's Public Service Commission, where he continued his effort to restrain the selfishness of utilities. In those two jobs he saw all the egregious forms of industrial skulduggery...
...Rome the dander of Benito Mussolini rose. For weeks he has been morally reproached by British newsorgans for his designs on Ethiopia. "On,the one hand Britain has attempted to invoke the League of Nations to restrain Italy, and on the other hand, Britain sanctions with Germany treaty violations presumably repugnant to all good league members!" exclaimed Il Duce's family newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia. It added sarcastically: "Maybe, some day, the British-German accord will be pompously registered with the League, presumably, too, with the assent of the Delegate of Ethiopia...
...intense interest which is being manifested in my speech here causes me to proceed with almost undue caution, and I feel almost impelled to request Senators to restrain themselves lest they applaud me as I proceed with my lecture on this question. ... I will read a little further...
Flexibility, providing for the initiative of the individual student, is the dominant word of the hour. No longer do hour exams, mid-year probation, and attendance at classes restrict upperclassmen. No longer will specified distribution requirements restrain the ambitious Freshman. No longer will the elementary language requirement force unwilling students into German...
...carry out its rules which call for suspension of any member unable to meet his obligations. When President Boylan of the Board of Trade summoned the Board's directors to a secret meeting, they found Mr. Rosenbaum one jump ahead of them. He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market. But Mr. Boylan had one ace left. If the court would not let him suspend Rosenbaum Grain, at least...