Word: banished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built on-campus dormitories, because he thought there was too much disparity between rich & poor in Smith's cliquish off-campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...
...professional baseball's one-man judge, jury and police force, Judge Landis had the power to cancel a World Series, banish an owner or manager, void any deal at any time. Truculent, profane, razor-sharp, he had only to look down his nose to make everybody hop. Most times they didn't like it, but his kind of tyrannical power was good for the game, and baseballers knew...
...advocates believe that aluminum dust may banish shortness of breath, chest constriction, the threat of tuberculosis. (Said one Canadian miner: "Aluminum takes the leather out of your lungs.") They also think that aluminum breathed after each day's mining or dusted into mines may prevent silicosis altogether. But the day of its general adoption is still a long way off. As research on the subject is not yet complete, Mclntyre Research, Ltd. (the original discoverers) has patented its use of the dust, will apply the royalties to further study...
...biggest postwar bugaboos to U.S. business has been: How will the U.S. dispose of its more than $15,000,000,000 worth of Federally owned war plants? Last week, Bethlehem Steel Corp. took action to banish its own bugaboo, by purchasing all Government-built steelmaking facilities on Bethlehem property. These were mainly coke ovens and blast furnaces at Lackawanna, Bethlehem, Steelton and Sparrows Point. Shipbuilding facilities were not included...