Word: banish
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...Unafraid that they would generalize their subject into thin air, they deployed last week in polyglot platoons to discuss international teaching of History ("banish war heroics"), Civics and Geography; establishment of standard courses, in the normal schools of all countries, on Internationalism; establishment of a world university and a universal library service; agreement upon a reciprocal arrangement concerning university degrees and credits, whereby students could migrate from one university to those of other countries without interrupting their studies...
...psychologist will doubtless find a scientific explanation for the recurrence of this old mania; the layman will regret that he too cannot banish telephone rates and trolleys from his mind, shoulder a pick, and let his imagination and actions run riot. The wealth he grubs from the ground will be a small part of that which he gets from his holiday...
...things are really so bad, perhaps something should be done about it. Mr. Wells, though silent as to the remedy, can not be expected to keep silent very long. Perhaps the solution is to banish the offending female from nursery and kindergarten, and replace her with a special importation of English Creakles...
...faculty has conferred with the different societies and each has promised to banish liquor from future initiations and to cooperate with the college and police in stopping the drinking on such occasions...
...banish gloom and bile...