Word: prohibited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...generally acknowledged that, were we adequately prepared before the recent war, our rights would never have been violated. In the future, we must have an army of sufficient strength to cope with any attack. The odium attached to a large standing army would prohibit the enlistment of any great number of soldiers. The ideal method is to have a small regular army as a nucleus with a well trained democratic citizen force as a reserve...
...grave mistake to prohibit entirely immigration to the United States," was the recent declaration of Professor Robert F. Foerster '06, assistant professor of Social Ethics in the University, whose book on "The Italian Emigration of Our Time" has just been published by the University Press...
...faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated out of business; the railroads will be so regulated that, by the time they are returned to their original owners, they will be unrecognizable...
...with the approval of the University debating authorities and a new wording has been requested. The question, as announced by Yale is: "Resolved that the eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States should be repealed and that the power to regulate or prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages should not be committed to the Federal government." It is expected that Yale will submit a new wording within the next few days...
Speaking in Sanders Theatre last evening, the 1922 negative team opposed Princeton on the question: "Resolved: That the United States should prohibit the immigration of unskilled labor for four years...