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Word: prohibition (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, based on a salary of $2,699 in Class Eight is very misleading, as the largest group comes under Class Six. If I took the time to make a comparison between the new retirement plan and Social Security. Therefore, I fail to see anything in the law to prohibit Harvard University from giving its employees something as good as Social Security. George A. Porter

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Retirement Plan | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Massachusetts and Connecticut, the only two states which still prohibit the dissemination of information on the use of contraceptives, were tied for third lowest birth rate in the country in the five-year period 1936 to 1940, he pointed out. Zimmerman termed the present prohibitive law "not only immoral but cruel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Praise Birth Control . . . | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Joseph J. Borgatti, Jr. '45, the Band's new manager, declined last night to reveal the names of the firms involved until it could be determined whether federal laws prohibit non-union members from cutting discs for public sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firms Bid to Record Band for Public Sale | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

...Richard Cresson Harlow was playing on the line for the University of Pennsylvania, and wearing handles on his hip pads so that his teammates could toss him and the ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

...quack" is usually libelous. But it may surprise them to learn that praising a doctor may be libelous. In Louisiana, a doctor collected damages after the New Orleans Picayune praised an operation he had performed. His claim: the story was, in effect, an ad for him; medical ethics prohibit advertising; his medical standing was therefore damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dangerous Business | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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