Word: outright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outright prohibition of liquor by college authorities is not the answer to this problem. If students cannot be kept from drinking, they should at least know HOW to drink. Educating the students to proper ways of drinking may become the eventual solution. If all other methods fail, it will not do any harm to try this. Syracuse Daily Orange...
...grant, which will be in effect for the next five years, provides for an outright bequest of $200,000, and beyond this a maximum of $100,000 to be matched by the Rockefeller Fund against whatever the committee receives through gifts, the government, or other sources...
...simple. Explained his New York American: "The word 'teaching' as used in the statutes in conjunction with the word 'advocating' covers the whole field and PROHIBITS INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY." But to E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, "teaching" meant outright advocacy, did not mean a factual, unbiased treatment of the subject. Acting on Counsel Prettyman's interpretation, the Board of Education refused to stop teachers from at least mentioning and explaining Communism in classrooms...
Left. By William Wallace Atterbury, onetime president of Pennsylvania R. R. (TIME, Sept. 30) : personal and real estate of $357,000 "and upward"; partly in trust, partly outright, to his wife...
...banks of the Androscoggin River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business and today are its only officers...