Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some diversion is undoubtedly due the proctors, to whom an examination is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, but only a bore; yet some more charitable form of recreation might be their choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes...
...first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage house; when he came out of the navy, where he had been an ensign, he was aware of certain defects in his financial education that might forbid the eminence which he desired. Instead of rejoining his firm, he joined the Chase Securities Corporation, then spent a year in the credit department of the bank. So doing, he attracted the favorable attention of the president of the Chase Bank, Albert Henry Wiggin...
...deluge, a deluge to throw religion into relief, and overflow a hundred volumes of Americana, or Heffliana. Prohibition has been a sufficient bone of contention, but it may readily be seen that man can never be aroused to battle over his right to indulgance or his desire to forbid it, as he can be harried into charging blindly when an ingrained and unreasoning religious prejudice is invoked...
...before his election, is an apartment in a low grade quarter of the city where Senator-suspect Vare has absolute political control. Testifying last week, Mr. Beck said: "It's an honest residence. . . . For one who tries at every opportunity to interest the people in the Constitution, God forbid that I should insist on any departure from it!" The Committee continued pondering the honesty of Mr. Beck's residence...
...their environment has stimulated them in the art of navigation. The policy of this series will be not to insist on the compulsory character of environment, but rather on its suggestive character; its ability to furnish opportunities which may or may not be taken, and its ability to forbid certain features...