Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people is imme- diate and complete disarmament. . . . The disarmament commission [of the League of Nations] is merely decorative and has not advanced disarmament a single step. . . . Should our plans for complete World disarmament seem too complex, at first, that is because complete disarmament has always been treated as a forbidden subject and has never been thoroughly dealt with...
...strike "took." Some 4,000 men walked out at once. Some 3,500 joined them later. The I. W. W. took great care to use peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers...
...statement points to a fact which can scarcely be brought to light to often that a modern university is not only a storehouse of past learning, but a center for the gathering of new knowledge an agency which covers the glabe, from the Amazon and the Andes to the forbidden mountains of Tibet. Berein lies perhaps the answer to those who for one reason or another have questioned, from the founding of the first university, the worth of such an institution. Of the making of many books there is proverbially and truly no end; but the making of many books...
...Premier Raymond Poincaré and his Government mulled over the problem of retiring them in favor of a new loan at a lower rate to be sought in the U. S. market. Governments who have not yet agreed upon a plan to pay their debts to this country are forbidden to raise funds...
...proclaimed martial law throughout the land. All public building were occupied by troops, numerous arrests were made, the frontiers were closed, telephone and telegraph services were suspended and the censorship was tightened. Newspapers reverted to their old custom of leaving blank spaces in their columns in place of news forbidden by the censors, no mention of the name of Carol, either orally or in writing, being permitted. Still, despite repeated official denials, a fierce agitation, centering about Carol's return, was reported to be growing...