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Word: forbidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Stimson analyzed the action of Congress in regard to corporations. There are two methods of treating corporate growth; first, to recognize the necessity of the economic change and to endeavor to regulate and control it; second, to forbid and penalize all combinations. These two methods are diametrically opposed, but Congress, in the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Act, has tried to reconcile them, but without success. When the Sherman Act was passed Congress was aware that an evil existed but did not know how to cope with it. The act was therefore made very vague...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Federal Control of Corporations" | 5/11/1911 | See Source »

...questions, of which the first five contain fifty sub-divisions,--quotations at random from three plays. These fifty quotations are to be "placed," interpreted, discussed, information supplied as the case may require (vague paraphrases not acceptable), and parallel passages quoted. Among the sub-divisions appear the following: "A man forbid." "The valued file." "Cabin'd cribb'd, confined." "Indent with fears." "Did oppress our rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/4/1911 | See Source »

...intended to be, Mr. Collier's attack on the lecture system. "The situation is very much as if physical culture instructors should devote all their attention to feeding their pupils on the best possible nourishment, and make no attempt to give the pupils exercise." The limitations of space forbid the reviewer to enter upon an extended discussion of this incisive and cogent criticism of the Harvard lecture system. It is unquestionably destined to receive the wide and careful attention which it merits...

Author: By A. N. Holcombe ., | Title: Mr. Holcombe Reviews. Illustrated | 3/25/1910 | See Source »

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