Word: restrictive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Older people are freer in their criticism, but are careful to restrict their jibes to the privacy of the home. Members of the elder generation have been quietly edged out of the more desirable positions...
Last year the Advocate urged that the attendance requirements be stiffened as a means to restrict tutoring school patronage by men who have neglected their lectures...
...only that, but Senator Logan argued in open Senate against his colleague and Leader, when the latter came to next day. He would not yield his victory, and garrumped at the New Deal agencies whose oxen were most seriously gored: "Congress created them and if Congress wants to restrict their powers, they should keep their mouths shut...
...therefore going to make an experiment which may be fatal politically. . . . I am going to be compelled to restrict the amounts which I can give...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...