Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pointed out that a difference exists between free speech and propaganda, but there seems to be no possibility of drawing the line. Experience has shown that it is impossible to shut up a "Red," as long as there is a street corner and a soap box. If we forbid him to speak, we play into his hands by giving him one more grievance to talk about. Our resistance must be active and not passive...
...were to admit personalities as scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...might be difficult to give a High School student a just appreciation of the possibilities of his subject; in college there is little excuse for not doing so. College, after all, is or ought to be the important stage of our training, the stage which, once, reached, should forbid our wasting time any further. It is not enough, then, for an institution to offer a good system of preparation. Out of fairness to both students and professors a better means should be contrived of revealing the opportunities that lie behind a prosaic statement in the catalogue...
Under the exemption which will be made to the draft bill, members of those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which...
...anything but a paper blockade for the very nature of the submarine makes it impossible to surround England with a cordon of blockaders. The submarine is easy prey for a warship and hence it must keep on the move. And Germany, according to international law, has no right to forbid neutrals to trade with England until an actual blockade is established...