Word: banishers
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...launching at a luncheon in San Francisco's Bohemian Club was Humanist Lewis Mumford. Said he: "Here is a challenge to a fresh creative effort in education . . . the production of complete human beings, harmoniously disciplined to create within themselves and within their society the order that will banish the barbarous mechanisms and the mechanized barbarisms that now threaten...
References to the Ibis, bird of doubtful antecedents which currently disgraces the steeple of the Lampoon building, was made in the hope that when George reaches maturity he will be pitted against the Ibis "in a fight-to-the-finish," in order to "banish conclusively the name of 'Ibis' from the civilized world...
...Johnson's shrewd argument-that the President is not only a democrat, but a great one-may remove fears that many Americans hold about Mr. Roosevelt. But the fear that the President is leading the country into some kind of Socialism only time and Mr. Roosevelt himself can banish...
...payrolls, cutting consumer purchasing power. A long-range object is to create a $5,000,000,000 Social Security fund to soften the effect of a possible post-war depression. But the ultimate aim is the object which lies near to the heart of the New Deal: to banish individual economic insecurity...
...squaw, complete in deerskin dress and feathered crown. In the rear, a couple of muscular orthopedists patiently kneaded the spines of lopsided patients, naked except for brief trunks. Other side shows showed how to resuscitate the newborn, diagnose female sterility, guard the health of airplane pilots, bandage broken legs, banish early syphilis in five days...