Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This hymn from a Blue Book was in yesterday's mail and had such a touching taint of truth in it that to forbid its inclusion here would be more than criminal. But, though examination monitors are rather cheerless brethren. I have just found that there is an even worse outfit--the Baptists. In Herr Mencken's monthly a long article by James D. Bernard dissolves any of my fond hopes for the Baptists of the world. In truth the casual reader of Mr. Bernard's essay could easily believe that the only difference between Baptist and Moron is philologic...
Thus placing the discussion on the prosaic basis of business training, Mr. Babson gives the News opportunity to retort that a college is "no business training school. God forbid." "Living, not business, is life's purpose." And the college is not to be judged in terms of the business efficiency of its graduates...
...Massachusetts mill interests, among other obstacles, are up against state laws which prescribe a 48-hour week and forbid the employment of women after 6:00 p.m. The Bay State textile men declare this is an impossible handicap for them to carry as against the freer conditions in North Carolina, and accordingly they are seeking a 54-hour working week from the Legislature. They claim that it is more expensive to operate a cotton mill in Massachusetts than in any of the other textile states, and that the local cotton industry has practically lost its markets to the South...
...united by the strictest athletic code in existence. Consequently, Mr. Edmonds suggestion of a conference in the east, which would broaden the scope of the Harvard Yale-Princeton agreement, is very laudable. But why have it a mutually exclusive organization. Neither the Western nor the Missouri Valley Conference forbid their members to play preliminary non-conference games. Therefore, why could not a similar organization in the East allow for non-conference games, or at least for preliminary games with schools belonging to other conference with similar characteristics. Donald McCloud...
Suddenly certain newspapers and persons began to murmur, "This Parsee,* this M.P. from Battersea, he's a Red, an anarchist, a whatnot. What does the State Department mean by admitting him? Doesn't the law forbid the entrance of persons into this country who advocate the overthrow of our Government...