Word: binds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney ? Judge Wilkerson approved the making of the recommendation. No judge could bind himself to follow such a recommendation. There was a tacit understanding...
...would be only an advisory body to whisper in the ear of Big Business. Ideal as this method might seem to the magnate, history and experience surely point out that an advisory agency could never win enough support by gentle suasion to untangle the knots with which conflicting interests bind the commerce of the nation...
...North Dakota primary usually lacks political meaning. The voters are free to ballot in either party and their presidential preferences in no wise bind convention delegates elected separately but simultaneously. Governor Murray, campaigning excitedly as an apostle of discontent, had purposely picked North Dakota for the first test of his political strength outside Oklahoma. He confidently expected to turn agrarian radicalism to his own benefit. Yet Governor Roosevelt not only swept the preference voting but won nine of the State's ten Democratic convention delegates. The only delegate Governor Murray got to add to his 22 from Oklahoma...
...called "International Law," contrary to popular belief, does not necessarily bind a sovereign state...
...seen it stated in the daily press on reputable authority that the slang of today is puny, degenerate, and emasculated. Now this directly concerns his province, for it is in his slang that ordinary man looses the chains which bind him and stands forth a naked personality. And the Vagabond deals with the hearts of men from which the curtain of convention has been drawn aside. Slang and swearing, as they appear to a purist, should be crystallized emotional expressions. Regarded as such, the Vagabond can only join with his distinguished colleague and lament the passing of the giant oaths...