Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, "intellectual bootlegging" would undoubtedly be affected; the authorities would hardly inflict the extreme penalty on a student guilty of selling notes, if his wares were an intellectual achievement. Widener would scarcely suspend permanently the privileges of a man for defacing a book, if the comments he inscribed in the margin were pithy or well-taken. Professors would be inclined to adopt a graded system of epithets to hurl at those who happen to go to sleep during their lectures, depending upon the general interest of the discourse. The penalty for wearing a hat into the classroom might even...
...University called themselves the University Associates. Up until 1930 they were highly successful and a good share of the land that they had acquired had been duly handed over to the Corporation. Four years ago, however, when Cambridge landowners had discovered what was going on they had to suspend operations because of rising prices. Following this suspension it seems that the composition of the trust changed and they became an admittedly business group while still retaining in their possession several important and vital plots Among the latter were all the plots fronting on Massachusetts Avenue from the Porcellian Club...
...called for a vote on a motion to withdraw confidence from all Socialist members of the Cabinet. This vote resulted in 223 ballots against the Cabinet. The Speaker once more ruled that the Government was not obliged to resign, and such caterwaulings broke out that he was forced to suspend the session...
...while," he continued, "we thought that it would be necessary to post watches at the door to intercept the thieves and to prohibit students from carrying satchels or bags in and out of the Library, but these steps were not thought advisable. We did have to suspend several men's Library privileges, however, and by making examples of these thieves we think we have stopped the practice...
...true student cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...