Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rendition of "Johnny Harvard" called forth Mr. Delcevare King's criticism, it scarcely seems necessary for the college to disown these men. At the time when this and many other old Harvard songs were written Prohibition had not yet made the convivial board a rare and clandestine affair. A ban now on all such jolly old songs would be much like the absurd ban on the teaching of German in this country during...
What threatened to be a curse upon Yale-Harvard athletic engagements for the coming season has suddenly and fortunately been averted. With no advance notice those in authority have lifted the ban on Yale's sophomore athletes. This is a piece of welcome news, for nothing is so unfortunate for amateur sport as to have continual worry over present or future ineligibility. Luckily for New Haven the ghost "it might have been" has been vanquished...
...laboratory, hurled into the street test tubes filled with billions of deadly microbes.* At Bayonne, France, during a bull fight a bovine tossed his head, knocked a sword out of a matador's hand and into the grandstand, where it pierced the heart of a wealthy Cu ban spectator, who died. Near Philadelphia the Baldwin Locomotive Works established a world's record by turning out locomotives† at the rate of one per hour for 31 consecutive hours...
When Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfield urged Mayor Hylan to ban eight history textbooks from the public schools of New York City, he was acting only as would any citizen of his parts. At the order of the Mayor he had made himself an authority on American History by a year and a half's study of school children's textbooks. Next he held five public hearings at which two out of twenty-four persons defended the books in question. Mr. Hirshfield then investigated the activities of countless questionable organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Rhodes Scholarship Association, where each...
Alvaro Obregon, President of Mexico: " Ban Johnson, President of the American League, presented me with a handsome trophy on which are depicted George Sisler and Ray Schalk in action. It is much admired in Mexico City...