Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring, the prevailing opinion was that all the colleges which are planning to play football were just being optimistic and the ODT or some other set of initials would ban it. Now it's beginning to look as if every member of the Ivy League except Harvard will have a "formal" team this year, although all are our-tailing their schedules to avoid long trips. But they're all keeping some semblance of a schedule, and not limiting themselves to subway travel, on the theory that if the Government wants them to stop football it will...
Raining in importance when a ban was placed on commercial tutoring, the Bureau has been supplying tutors at a nominal fee to legitimate clients of the old schools, students who have missed work because of illness, who have had inadequate secondary school preparation, or who have had any natural difficulty in keeping up with the course...
Business Booms After Ban...
...amateurish, wonderful. For U.S. listeners, there was sadness in almost every line of the broad cast. The doughboys and doughgirls wanted above all to get home, The home front has heard little of this sort of program because of stanch adherence by NBC and CBS to their long standing ban on recorded programs, and an apparent reluctance by the military to promote direct civilian radio contact with troops abroad. In England BBC has long run recordings from far fields, found they have a big and attentive audience...
...those of us who don't know why the above poem belongs in Asotellites: The latest ban on bringing the Navy wife on the banks of the Charles may very well effect...