Word: compel
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Judge Ingraham, in the New York Superior Court yesterday afternoon denied the application by Salmi Morse for a mandamus to compel Mayor Edson to grant him a license to produce the Passion Play...
...clerks in the government department at Washington vigorously denounce the proposition to compel them to do eight hours work a day, as is done by other clerks in government employ...
...bill has been introduced into the Connecticut legislature to compel the owners of all high houses to provide rope fire-escapes. If such a measure could be carried in Massachusetts there might be some prospect of the introduction of such fire escapes at Harvard by the authorities-under the tender persuasion of the police...
...They now number fully four thousand. All they have to do is to fill every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...
...place, contrasting poorly with Yale's cheerful and richly sculptured Battell Chapel. It is known to everybody that from time immemorial students of every college have looked upon daily perfunctory prayers as the bugbear of their lives. To stand over a young man with a policeman's club and compel him to worship, hardly conduces either to the glory of God or to the student's religious edification. Coercion at Harvard especially is something anomalous and discordant...