Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 25. - It is reported here as certain that on account of the roughness of yesterday's game the faculty will prevent the Yale-Harvard freshman game and may put an end to the Princeton game as well. One of the professors said that the faculty would doubtless take action, and that it looked as though football at Yale would be stopped...
...tickets this year are in a number of respects different from those of last year. They have the same steel plate engraving on the back as last year, but the color has been changed and the workmanship is better. The object of this engraving is to prevent counterfeiting, yet even this safeguard has not prevented some counterfeiting in the past. The face of the tickets is quite different. For one thing, the letters and numbers of the sections, rows and seats are made much more prominent. Applications are now beginning to come in fast...
...Free refined sugar will check the Sugar Trust. - (a). It will prevent - (1) Undue gain by a few men: Public Opinion, Sept. 5. - (2) Political corruption such as has disgraced our Senate: Nation, Aug. 2, Aug. 9, 1894; Harper's Weekly, June 30, Aug. 18, Sept...
...second set the score stood 2 - 1 against Read and Chase. when the rain, which had been threatening, came on so heavily as to prevent further play. It had been agreed that if the match was interrupted it should be played over entire, and the two teams settled on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock as the time for the final contest...
Trafford '93 coached the interference during the preliminary work and put considerable life into the plays during the game. The aggressive work of the 'varsity was unusually brilliant and the men seemed to prevent the second from gaining whenever they wished. Beale and Foster were again tried at quarterback and again Foster did the better work. He puts a certain amount of dash into the plays which Beale does not and he rarely fumbles the ball...