Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that nasty article about "Taboo Words" [TIME, May 2] was "newsworthy," I'm a Chinaman...
...investigators found the college freshmen most finicky, the seniors most free-spoken, the faculty betwixt & between. The women had more taboo words than the men. Some of the words, and the proportion of each group that used them freely...
Bitch (most taboo of the list) : freshmen 7%, seniors 9%, faculty 17%, men 10%, women...
...Vcrbal Taboo in a College Community, by Edwin R. Hunter and Bernice E. Gaines, in American Speech, a quarterly (Columbia University Press...
...article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...