Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurly-burly like that of the University of Missouri, (see above), but a sepulchral silence, fell last week upon the campus of the University of Detroit. By order of the President (Dr. John Patrick McNichols), the 300 girl students were forbidden to converse with the 2,900 boy students. They might, if they wished, say "Good morning" or even ''How do you do,'' but nothing more...
Necessary and desired as salt is, it is forbidden those suffering from high blood pressure, Bright's disease, dropsy. Victims can forego the ingestion of salt. But its taste they crave. Chemists and pharmacists have long sought to compound a substance that tastes like salt but is harmless in these diseases...
...Technique of Contraception: the Principles & Practice of Anti-Conceptional Methods, by Dr. James F. Cooper, medical director of the Clinical Research Department of the American Birth Control League. No such book has ever before been printed in the U. S., nor made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, has published two monumental books on the subject, but it is almost impossible...
...balm strong enough to help the class upon a third road. Since 1922 stained glass and pseudo-Gothic vaults have reverberated once each year to jazz; but Protean student opinion stops changing for a moment, and finally agrees that bare wall expanse deadens good cheer. Back Bay is forbidden--all the better does the Harvard luster of the affair show...
Elsewhere, onlookers jeered and cheered as cars parked at forbidden hours in forbidden places were trundled off by wrecking crews. The principal Whalen innovations were two: 1) "spectacle dramas" (girls) to begin at 8:30; other productions at 8:50; 2) No traffic turning whatsoever in the district...