Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tours through barracks. To these ladies "the advantages of a soldier's life" are explained. They are told that son, husband or fiance will have an equal vote with the rest of his barrack comrades as to what they shall eat. A vote against prunes, for example, will banish that fruit from Tommy Atkins' table...
...boldly capitalize the Prohibition issue last week in their advertisements in the Brooklyn Eagle, Newark News, New York Journal and Sun. Gobel's had earlier skirted the question with large spreads headed first "Give us beer," shout 20,00,000 New Yorkers, later a little more vigorously with "Banish poison booze!" But last week's prophecy or announcement was boldest of all. The excuse for it: Gobel's promised to make "a generous cash contribution to a worthy society working for Prohibition reform" for each can of Gobel's Sugar Cured Ham sold...
...exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
...according to present plans with such modifications as seem necessary. Then require the successful candidates to show by personal conference with a college officer that their leisure time has resulted in self-education and cultivation of sufficient value and importance to justify its allotment. This plan would, I believe, banish present difficulties from the schools and bring to the college finer material than it now obtains...
...From these sciences [chemistry, physics] we cannot banish one-way Time without also banishing one-way Causality. If we think of the present as pushed into existence by the past, we must, in equal measure, think of it as pulled into existence by the future. Causality, thus rendered symmetrical, gains rather than loses significance...