Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country that guarantees freedom of religion has no right to make laws about morals ; that public opinion is divided as to whether smoking, drinking, gambling and professional sex service are vices; that the church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with the belief of many leading Galveston businessmen that sin is good for business; that the tourist trade would fall off if gambling and prostitution were sup pressed...
Next, Malik proposed that the Disarmament Commission draw up for the Security Council an international convention which would "completely prohibit the use and manufacture of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction...
...apocryphal. Truth may at times be stranger than fiction, but stories, even true ones, have a way of growing. For instance, how could 48 Holworthy men have fitted into the small Class Day fountain? And was Professor Sophocles ignorant or exempt from the dormitory regulations which prohibit animals of any nature from being in rooms...
Exam typing has worked very successfully at Yale, Princeton, and the Harvard Law School for several years. They have easily overcome the only reasons which the Administration can offer for not permitting typing here-space problems and administrative difficulties. Although lack of desk facilities would prohibit typing in many halls, the largest examination room of all-Memorial Hall-could handle just as many typing students on its long tables as those who presently write. Possibly this one hall might handle all the College typers. By posting advance sign-up sheets for students interested in typing their exams, the Registrar could...
...have to tackle the overnight parking problem some other way," he said, "especially in my district around Harvard. I think the only solution is to ask the University to prohibit the students from keeping cars. Most other colleges don't allow them...