Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deliberations. The speeches of the week, however, resolved themselves into long-winded bursts of impotent oratory, no matter how brilliant and forceful they may be viewed from a literary standpoint. Poland brought forward a plan: 1) Any recourse to war in order to settle international disputes is and remains forbidden. 2) Every dispute of whatever nature arising between states or nations cannot be settled except by pacific means. In consequence, the Assembly urges members of the League to take action on these declarations and conform to their principles in their mutual relations. The powers would have none...
...wars of agression are forbidden...
Excuse me for writing with a pencil. We are forbidden to write and this letter is to be smuggled out. That's Haiti under American rule...
...spoke, not as the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, not as the retired major general of the U. S. Army, but as the doctor of medicine that he also is. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1884. An interne in a hospital where internes were forbidden to perform operations, he successfully operated on a child in an emergency and was dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant surgeon (1886). He served as medical and line officer with Captain Henry Ware Lawton in the great campaign of 1886 against the Apache Indians...
...times an amateur champion and noted especially for his putting ability, brought the " Schenectady" to fame in 1904 by using one to win the British Amateur Championship. In 1905, the British Golf Association barred centre-shafted clubs from its tournaments. In 1920, the U.S.G.A. followed suit. But, like the forbidden rib-faced mashie, "Schenectadies" are still widely...