Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, the attitude of N. A. M. speakers towards his Administration was diplomatic. Avoiding the futile acrimony which characterized their meeting two years ago and the equally profitless sweetness which veiled their feelings last year, the delegates spoke their mind on the New Deal with dignity and restraint. In one of the most sense-making of the orations Lammot du Pont pointed out that for private industry to create jobs for 3,000,000 workers required investment of at least $25,000,000,000- money invested "a year, two years, perhaps even ten years in advance of any hope...
Rumania is about to hold a general election, and towering Statesman Titulescu stepped from his Wagon-Lit to declare: "In this hour of gravity I have had to return to my country to take part in portentous events. I am anxious to face my foes with restraint and courtesy. However, if they compel me to do so, I shall show them I can fight not only with the weapons of Geneva but with those of a gypsy encampment...
...readers. Nor do they resemble Jules Remains' many-volume Men of Good Will. Main difference is that Martin du Gard avoids detailed accounts of the social and economic background, tells his story in succinct, dramatic scenes. Suggestive, lucid, ironic. The Thibaults is written with a restraint that reminds some French critics of Flaubert, with a serenity of tone that is extraordinary in a period of impassioned argumentative prose...
...balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes it possible for us to conceive these desirable ends...
...patience and self-restraint has been rewarded, for many times during past football seasons we have wanted to tell you just how good these teams are down here. We're glad we didn...