Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news in question is framed to appeal to the sense of the ridiculous. But in the case of the now famous Yale Freshman riot of last June it is upon a succession of acts rather than upon a suddenly-announced penalty that opinion must be based. The threat to forbid the Freshman crew to race at New London unless all the offenders confessed and the actual disqualification from all activities of a large part of the Sophomore class are facts to be remembered in considering the latest plan for pledges of good behavior...
...bulletin of the Bureau of Education (Bulletin 1923, No. 15) codifies neatly the state of the law as to Bible-reading in the schools. Six states require daily Bible-reading in the public schools, six permit it by statute, ten forbid it. Of the remaining states, the reading of the Bible is construed as permissible in 24 (the law being silent on the subject), while in two the state of the law is in doubt...
...agitation over faked sculpture has stimulated a movement to forbid the departure of any art work from France unless the sale is approved by the Ministry of Fine Arts and a group of connoisseurs. Roman gate ways, ancient mantelpieces, church sculpture from provincial towns have been avidly bought up by Americans, but will probably not be allowed to leave the country. Some French critics, however, say that France has only herself to blame for her low estimate of precious Corots, Daumiers, Cezannes, and for her poor care of her art treasures. In America, they admit, these objects are at least...
...bill to forbid the publication of the details of divorce court evidence passed its second reading and was referred to committee...
...public welfare. The process of assimilation will be delayed as long as the use of English among the children is not made universal. Rightly enough, the Supreme Court has decided that freedom of language is a corollary to freedom of speech: the proper line of attack is not to forbid other tongues, but to encourage English as the first essential...