Word: restrainingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified. They saw nothing ludicrous in an order issued last week to Santiago police on duty in the public parks. Pursuant to this order polite constables began discreetly approaching amorous couples on park benches and behind bushes, pressing upon them cards neatly imprinted: ''You are requested to restrain your ardors...
...William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
...John said he had received from German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch "solemn assurance" that no invasion of the Saar by Germany will occur. Expressing his "satisfaction," Sir John then announced that "there has never been any question" of using British troops to restrain the invasion in question...
...erstwhile brain-truster with the A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations in the islands. At the same time the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was preparing to file a suit in Washington to restrain Secretary Wallace from enforcing the Costigan-Jones sugar-quota law in Hawaii. The planters' contention was--and it appears quite justifiable--that the Hawaiian Islands had received an unfairly low quota. But the merits of the suit do not matter. What does matter is that Mr. Sturges gave a speech over...
...producer whose hobbies are trapshooting and golf. His golf cards average go, his trapshooting scores, 83 out of 100. More enthusiastic than adept, Lawrence Dana, when he passed the mile-long firing line of the American Trapshooting Association at Vandalia, Ohio during tournament week in 1930, could barely restrain himself from getting off his train and entering the Grand target championship (fired at 16 yd. with no handicap...