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Word: forbids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know these Englishmen. You have clean missed the point in footnoting Codger P.-Jones' mild complaint (TIME, April 15). There is, in your publication, a certain TIMEly aptness of phrase peculiarly satisfying to American sensibilities. But to an Englishman, and God forbid that he should feel otherwise, these "flippancies" are all very well when referring to a mere Foreign Secretary or Prime Minister. But in reference to Royalty, Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...This was amply verified in the case of Labor Leader Claudio Bruzon, a political prisoner, whose arm was found inside a shark caught in the waters of Havana Harbor, and fully identified by his wife and friends. The only measure adopted by President Machado's government was to forbid, as shown in the front page of the newspaper El Pais for March 15, 1928, the further fishing of man-eating sharks in the Bay of Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Assassins! Sharks! | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Taplin brothers of Cleveland want the Wheeling, as they do the Western Maryland, to hook up with their short Pittsburgh & West Virginia and form a private Lakes-to-Ocean coal road. So they demanded that the I. C. C. forbid the B. & O., N. Y. Central and Van Sweringens to own the Wheeling. The I. C. C. last week continued to cogitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eastern R. R. Consolidation | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will. And now, when the Commonwealth permits the city of Boston to decide for itself whether its people shall debauch the Sabbath to the extent of going to see a ball game--the city fathers themselves forbid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONE SO DEAF | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...idol-God forbid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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