Word: edict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attempts yesterday to get Memorial Hall for the performance were balked by both a procedural ruling from Registrar Sargent Kennedy '02 and a fire edict which does not allow the setting up of ordinary seats in the hall...
...easygoing young man with a ready smile, has his grandfather's blue eyes and some of his restless energy. He also has a will of his own. He was the first of the grandsons (Henry II, Benson and William Clay, 22) to buck his grandfather's edict against smoking. Over family objections, he wangled his way into the Army as a private after he had twice been marked 4-F by his draft board (he is almost blind in one eye). He left the Army in January 1946, a captain in the Air Forces...
...lunchtime today, however, all posters in the lobby and reading rooms of the Union must be taken down, by edict of the Union Committee...
...special menu has been planned for less" program to the nation as his so-Taft, who two weeks ago offered an "Eat lution to the present food crisis. It could not be learned last night whether the special bill of fare conformed with the Meatless Tuesday edict...
Back in September 1940, a similar shortage forced President Roswell G. Ham to issue a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital personal needs Baths and showers were out. The CRIMSON gallantly came to the rescue by wiring the Mount Holyoke Student Council that ". . . Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. . . Our showers are big enough for two, N.S.Y.P...