Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half an hour the crowd craned and squinted for a glimpse of the racing hounds crossing distant rises. Once, the whole pack was in view, 2,000 feet up on the fells. Meanwhile, though the H.T.A. tries to prohibit betting after the first 15 minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed...
Cambridge's Traffic Board should take a survey of traffic conditions on Plympton Street, with the idea of allowing parking only on one side, the City Council decided this week. The plan would prohibit parking along either Lowell or Leverett House, thus making the parking problem more severe...
...that since a print had not been shown to him at least two weeks before the showing, a license could not be granted. Milliken further admitted that pressure had been placed upon him by the Equal Rights Society, the N.A.A.C.P., and other prominent Negro citizens, including several clergymen, to prohibit the showing...
Members of two college accrediting agencies, charged with enforcing the American Council on Education's new athletic code, recently indicated that they cannot comply. This decision will have no bearing on Ivy League intentions to abolish spring football practice and prohibit participation in post season games...
...your brief reference to Governor Adlai E. Stevenson's veto message concerning the notorious anti-cat measure [a bird lovers' bill "to prohibit cats from running at large" in Illinois]: I wish to state that The American Feline Society, Inc. played no small part in this legislative battle which could have conceivably cost the lives of 5 millions of Illinois cats...