Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liquor presents an entirely different problem. It seems to be an American trait to try to break laws. This trait must be reckoned with. Now the Massachusetts Legislature, in its capacity of serving the people, and therefore, youth, proposes to forbid the sale of liquor to those under twenty-one. In other words, at the very stage in a young man's life when he must be allowed to solve his own problems, through no fault of his, his sense of proportion about liquor will be warped...
...babies six months old, fed them for five years. Before them was set an abundance of fresh meats, vegetables, cereals, eggs, milk, fish, fresh fruit and sea-salt. Allowed to eat as much as they wanted of whatever they wanted, they proceeded to eat just as pediatricians would forbid them-quantities of meat and eggs, few vegetables and cereals. None of them ever ate spinach a second time. Some ate a wide variety of foods, some specialized But when, after five years, their individual diets were analyzed. Dr. Davis found that Nature had guided them wisely. Their diets were balanced...
Except that Argentina, being nonindustrial, has no industrial crisis she was suffering last week much as was the U. S. before President Roosevelt's inauguration. Paupered farmers recently forced the Government to forbid foreclosures temporarily. Bills to inflate the national currency have several times been before Congress. In this emergency last week President Justo temporized, unwilling to appoint either an inflationist or an anti-inflationist as Finance Minister. He turned the office over to a virtual caretaker, Minister of Justice & Education Manuel de Iriondo, making him Finance Minister ad interim. To test public opinion the President announced that Argentina...
...labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric pull-switch which Labor Inspector John Roach found in the ruins of the plant. New Jersey's labor laws forbid such switches near inflammable materials...
...either hand, the red bulk of the buildings seem to forbid his premeditations; still the Vagabond envisions beyond them his day of country pleasures, sure of fruition, his sunlit dalliance, and his final quart of ale, dish for a Ring...