Word: edict
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...What edict of Augustus Caesar was last week put into effect...
Further activities by II Duce resulted in the resuscitation of an edict of Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (63 B. C. to 14 A. D.) requiring all Romans to keep buildings owned by them in presentable repair...
Although several members of the University baseball team have an examination scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, an edict from the College office permitting those men to begin the examination at 11.45 o'clock in the morning at the Princeton Inn will enable Coatch Mitchell's nine to appear at full strength against Princeton in the play-off game Wednesday afternoon...
...Sahara, smitten sorely by sand- storms, but not before M. Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded extensively...
Dozens of policemen, thousands of witnesses, had seen him do it; he too knew that he was guilty. He had broken an edict relating to decency. No escape was possible. Already burly bluecoats were nudging through the crowd; while the onlookers hooted, mooed, clapped and guffawed, they led him off to jail. For this coin-biter was H. L. Mencken, journalist; by accepting the 50¢ as payment for a copy of the green-covered magazine, The American Mercury, of which he is the editor, he had broken an edict which barred that magazine from sale in Boston as "indecent...