Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demonstrated his ability last week at Curtiss Field in quest of a pilot's license. He landed at a mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached...
...forbid. I think that this is only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...
...Wife is entitled "Love's Embers" and Mrs. White is planning yet another phase in which "the embers will be reblown into a faint flame." Mrs. White has no intentions of letting the story be snuffed out; in fact, she says: "The exigencies of this novel forbid that they ever shall become real ashes." How she creates these exigencies, day after day, year after year, has been a mystery to many an author. Her method is to introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers, devilish dervishes, droll dolts. But, always...
...finally became a hollow frogskin when three other names-Lowden, Curtis, Watson-were given out as unofficial "second choice" men for whom Willis delegates might eventually vote. This made Ohio a microcosm of Republicanism all over the country-Hoover v. the Field. Candidate Dawes had the self-respect to forbid the Willis people to include his name on their auxiliary roster, saying he was still for his friend, Candidate Lowden...
...degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously remarked that only in times of physical distress were spiritual remedies at the height of their popularity, and that "Christian principles forbid them [the churches] to wish for the kind of change that would benefit them...