Word: banishing
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...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...
...Battalions of buffoons, boy. Broadcasting button-bursting brusqueries. Bliths boobies. Bubbling with blarney. Banish bile. Beggar bulletins; Bandy badinage-" Newsmen knew that although Dexter Fellowes had been engaged in neither peak sneaking nor animated alliteration, indeed had not even been interviewed, he was grateful for notices given his Circus in the Herald Tribune...
...banish the split infinitive from the speech of Harvard men is perhaps an object worthy of the serious attention of the faculty, but the process is unduly painful. To sit at the feet of wisdom and imbibe a true love of the English language necessitates inspiring instructors, and in English A1, the inspiring quality of the instructor is more than likely to be determined by the whims of the fickle Goddess of Fate. Given a poor instructor, any natural inclinations towards the study of English are likely to be smothered under the soporific influence of the teachings of the mediocre...
...that the murals do perpetuate the feeling aroused in the heat of the fast war, and I should think that it would be a very high consideration for those fortunate people who are supposed to hold aloof from the worst phases of mob passion, to do everything possible to banish every trace of such an attitude in the interest of the future of mankind...
...Shields's chins quivered with emotion when he addressed the delegates. The majority cheered him, inferentially hissing his enemy, Dr. Harry Wayman, expelled President of Des Moines University, whose face is infinitely sad and who last week said: "If it were possible to banish Dr. Shields to some island under the sea. a great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student...