Word: edict
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...initiating battle of the incoming freshmen; or rather football carried on during the full term while the opening Monday battle became known as the "Bloody Monday" greeting to the freshies by the sophs. It was all that the name implied, and it carried on until abolished by faculty edict sometime after the turn of the present century, in 1917; to be exact. While, as a participant during my college days, I can see some merit to the faculty's attitude, I can, however, assure you that the passing of "Bloody Monday" took away a something that used to knit...
...dignity's sake the President last fortnight laid a ban on candid camera portraits of himself (TIME, May 13). For time's sake he followed up that order last week with an edict against further portraits in oil. In Washington, Nicolas Richard Brewer, 77-year-oldster who painted the President few months ago, observed: ''The President is a very excellent subject if he behaves himself. The trouble is he jumps around too much...
Wrote Christopher Columbus: "In the same month that Their Majesties [King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the Kingdom and its territories-in that same month they gave me the order to undertake my expedition of discovery...
Inflexible, Nanking authorities rejected the petition, added that schoolgirls will also do well to observe more scrupulously General Chiang's edict against bobbed hair...
...Einaudi told how the king was forced to issue an edict on February 7, 1848, granting the constitutional government Cavour advocated, when a revolution broke out in Austrian dominated Piedmont in that year. Cavour's greatest work took place when the preparations were made for the inception of the democratic system of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies. At this time Cavour was the only figure of the day to work on the specific problems involved, and by his efforts and wide knowledge gained by studying first-hand the parliamentary bodies in England and France, he brought the new system...