Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their antecedents in the Dark Ages of the College. The original tree was the "Liberty" or "Rebellion" tree which stood in front of Hollis and around which the riotous sophomores of "Rebelliad" notoriety circled in the light of the bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class...
...Last week the Berlin correspondent of the American Medical Association Journal reported that these findings had led Dr. Stock to demand a ban on copper amalgam...
...such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
...Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper. Once in an envelope an issue of this news organ can no more be detected in the mail than a sheet of common note paper. Thus the entire edition of 12,000 copies is mailed into Italy, despite the ban on anti-Fascist literature. As an added precaution, each edition is mailed outside of Paris, from a city which changes from week to week...
This was the first French offering since the U. S. State Department removed its ban on French industrial financing. Theorists, comparing current prices for French bonds in New York, London, Amsterdam, Basel, had guessed that French business would have to pay about 6.10% interest on new borrowings. But out came the bankers with Paris-Orleans Railroad bonds yielding only 5.75% and the public quickly devoured them. Proof was here that bankers and public have a better opinion of French credit than statisticians...