Word: foists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Education subsidiary to the executive can foist compulsory military training on the colleges of the country is difficult to see. Without legislative action, college men cannot be required to match to the command of a top sergeant. Indeed since his courageous defence of the non-militaristic City College students, Dr. Otis seems to be obsessed with what the learned Viennese might call a military complex...
Chancellor Lindley, who successfully applied for a temporary injunction (later quashed by the state Supreme Court) to restrain the Governor, countercharged that he had been obliged to fight the Governor for most of the latter's two-year term by resisting his attempts to foist upon the University his political friends at the expense of tried and faithful servants...
...even the most rabid Nationalist dared to foist French laws upon the people of those Provinces; religious privileges, denied to French men and women in France, were freely exercised in Alsace and Lorraine...
...seems that Boston must rely on "local talent' for its artistic diversion. To attempt to make possible the bringing of worth while attractions, musical and dramatic, which had been successful in other cities, Mr. Mudgett went, last year, to the Opera House, as manager. Evidently, however, one cannot foist artistic things on a city which does not care to have them. Thus the visit of the Swedish Ballet, announced for the coming week, has had to be cancelled owing to lack of sufficient public response. We do not believe that this conclusively shows a lack of interest in the proposed...
...readin yer 8 moist Havurd poets for de foist time an on de level guy its de woist hokum I ever seen. Theys each one twict as bad as the rest. Its lousy dats the woid lousy. Over the radio from 33rd Street...