Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their defense of election policy that club members point up the basic difference between final clubs and the secret societies at Yale. "It's not," one member says, "as if we take all the outstanding people in the College and then prohibit the Jewish men who have done well. Our candidates are usually selected with little regard to their activities here. We chose from a certain type and background and there just aren't very many Jewish students in that group to begin with." Echoes another club member, "To some extent we let the headmasters at certain prep schools...
Last year he introduced a tough anti-cartel bill to prohibit associations formed to fix prices, but the bill was lobbied out of the Bundestag. Erhard, who is expected to introduce another bill soon, said last week that he would get even tougher in the future...
...suit to prohibit the Corporation from transferring books and plant specimens now in the Arnold Arboretum to quarters in the new Herbarium has been temporarily stymied...
...understanding is that overnight parking on Cambridge streets is illegal because parked cars (1) constitute a fire hazard and (2) prohibit street cleaning...
...certain methods used to obtain this aim . . . are morally contestable." In other words, the good of society alone is not enough to deprive the individual of his fundamental rights. Even in cases where one or both of the partners are suffering from a hereditary disease, it is wrong to prohibit them from marrying unless one is clearly "incapable of acting as a human being"-i.e., insane...