Word: debar
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...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...
...PresumabIy the reference is to the agreement of 1901 whereby Cuba was granted independence by the U. S. on condition that she shall never: 1) Conclude a treaty with a foreign power endangering her independence; 2) Contract debts which her current revenues would not suffice to pay; 3) Debar the U. S. from "the right of intervention...
...That arrogant statement [Architect Cram's] should not debar any man from discussing what is purely a matter of principle-namely, whether a so-called national monument . . . should not be made an expression of the country and the times by the exclusive use of the talent and genius of America. . . . There is nothing personal in what I have to say. Dr. Cram says that he offered the work to one or two Americans before employing Angell. There are a great many more to whom he could have offered it, and men of the greatest competence. The truth...
...taken definite steps to realize their true function as institutions of higher learning. There seems to be a general agreement to misunderstand Yale's recent action. The sons of Yale graduates are to be given preference only if they can fulfill the entrance requirements. Such limitation must, of course, debar the unfit and open limitless possibilities to those who can and will profit by their advantages. On the whole, this is the present trend in American colleges...
...Alba. Don Alba, a descendant of the famous Grandee family of Spain, entered politics a year before the War. He rapidly became a rich man, so rich that it was said that his money alone was enough to debar him from the Spanish Court. His wife, who is very beautiful, managed to advertise his wealth ostentatiously, and thereby aroused more jealousy, criticism and suspicion. When the revolution became a fait accompli, Don Alba was in San Sebastian, on the Franco-Spanish border, but he rapidly crossed the frontier to Biarritz in order to avoid arrest. The National Directorate charged...