Word: debar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell his wobbly minority to automakers who, now that they must have some union, ask nothing more than an orderly one. For selling talk, Mr. Martin had his delegates pledge themselves to observe their contracts, keep out Communists, Nazis and Fascists, and debar all such gentry from office. In doing so Homer Martin alienated radicals who have stood loyally by him and supplied the bulk of his administrative brains...
...society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: "Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, early in March in Paris. The entire family is now in New York visiting Mrs. Richard A. Kimball (Josephine J. Dodge) at 714 Madison Avenue. Mrs. de Brunhoff is the former Miss Celeste d'Aguillon, of Paris...
...result, Dr. Conant goes on to remark, "In the larger faculties more and more work is being done by administrative boards or committees. This is a very efficient system but tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the president from being in close touch with the general sentiment." It is to remedy the admitted defect of the present form of faculty meeting, and at the same time re-establish the former good, that the new council of sixty has been called into being. With a provision for rotation in office, it should permit "all the members...
...efficiency of the Administrative Board plan was not denied by President Conant but he pointed out that it tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the President from being in close touch with the general sentiment...