Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief among the rules for aircraft in warfare are provisions against bombing private property not of a military character and against attacking noncombatants. Bombardment of cities, towns, etc., not in the immediate vicinity of military operations is forbidden. Anything that would give a military advantage to a belligerent can be attacked. Cities, towns, etc., in the vicinity of military operations can be bombarded...
...always a difficult matter to predict the outcome of the former race, since the seating order is usually not known until the last minute, and all pre-race practice is forbidden. Two years ago Yale won, but last June the Crimson graduates took the measure of their rivals by a full length...
...prohibition will come here from the Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade, too, and not commercially interested in its continuance, as she now is in the rum traffic. But in 1858, according to the calculation of Stephen...
...severe regulation imposed by the New York Stock Exchange upon its members with respect to their firm advertisements, as well as its strict control over its ticker price quotations, have been endangered through the sudden perfection of radio broadcasting. By a recent resolution, the Board of Governors has forbidden the use of the wireless by its members either for advertising or publicity purposes, or for promiscuous relaying of Stock Exchange quotations. The latter will, however, be permitted in the case of broadcasting stations approved by the Exchange. The aim of the restrictions upon member advertising is to prevent undesirable public...
...there is a strong movement to have them reinstated on the ground that they contain data essential in the study of public affairs. Candidates for election to the School Board, which will be held in the near future, are being asked to define their attitude toward the forbidden periodicals. Neither The New Republic nor The Nation is radical in the proper sense of the word, since they do not advocate socialism, syndicalism, communism nor any other revolutionary change in our government or social structure, but simply reforms in the present system. Their sympathy for radical movements, which has brought them...