Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banish the split infinitive from the speech of Harvard men is perhaps an object worthy of the serious attention of the faculty, but the process is unduly painful. To sit at the feet of wisdom and imbibe a true love of the English language necessitates inspiring instructors, and in English A1, the inspiring quality of the instructor is more than likely to be determined by the whims of the fickle Goddess of Fate. Given a poor instructor, any natural inclinations towards the study of English are likely to be smothered under the soporific influence of the teachings of the mediocre...
...that the murals do perpetuate the feeling aroused in the heat of the fast war, and I should think that it would be a very high consideration for those fortunate people who are supposed to hold aloof from the worst phases of mob passion, to do everything possible to banish every trace of such an attitude in the interest of the future of mankind...
...Shields's chins quivered with emotion when he addressed the delegates. The majority cheered him, inferentially hissing his enemy, Dr. Harry Wayman, expelled President of Des Moines University, whose face is infinitely sad and who last week said: "If it were possible to banish Dr. Shields to some island under the sea. a great step would be taken in the interest of humanity but great injustice would be done to the fish of the sea." The Shields-Wayman controversy which everybody discussed at the Buffalo convention had reached its high point the week prior in a student...
...lands in national parks, and authorizing him to incur additional obligations up to $2,750,000 to match public donations for park improvements. Behind this proposal were two purposes: 1) To save Yosemite National Park from logging on 11,000 acres of private land within its confines; 2) To banish forever unsightly "hot dog" stands from Federal expanses of nature's bosom...
This new type of impassioned revival has swept from place to place, from college to college. Princeton, where the first headquarters were set up, was the first to banish all exponents of the new system. Not long afterwards also suffering from a similar agitation, Oxford students issued a loud and trenchant warning against what they believed harmful to the best interests of the University...