Word: banishers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Umpire. It is the Umpire's function to settle disputes, to give or withhold credit for this or that answer. The Umpire is omnipotent and is empowered to banish people from the house, if necessary...
...night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were...
...Chamorro who forced the Nicaraguan Congress to elect him President after he had virtually seized that office by a military coup (TIME, Sept. 21). Neither has General Chamorro been recognized as president by a potent Nicaraguan faction led by onetime Vice President Sacasa, whom General Chamorro compelled Congress to banish. Operating from Guatemala, Dr. Sacasa has launched a series of insufficiently prepared and unsuccessful revolts. Last week these counter revolutions were deemed of sufficient magnitude by Secretary Kellogg to call for the presence of U. S. gunboats to protect U. S. commercial interests in Nicaragua. Anti-Chamorrists, vexed, declared that...
...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...