Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moron who shoulders uncomplainingly the unpleasant tasks of life. If any steps are taken to prevent the reproduction of morons, many lawyers, doctors, parliamentarians, preachers and Congressmen would have to go to work. . . . As a rule the ordinary moron works. . . .. The mass of the world's most important and also most disagreeable work is done by morons and others closest to the line. ... If we had no morons, it would seriously interfere with the paving of streets, building of sewers, running of railroads, factories and other industries and also raise havoc with church attendance. . . . The moron as a rule...
...essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds it. --Yale Daily News...
...often wonder," he told a CRIMSON reporter last night, "why Harvard University doesn't take more of a hand in the matter, why it doesn't try to prevent that gang of low politicians from making this city the laughing stock of America: but," he added, after a contemplative pause, "I guess Harvard's got troubles enough of its own with its football team...
...inhabitants in the general region of the Charles are well aware, construction is busily proceeding on at least one unit of the new House. Plan. Just across the way, legal considerations have prevented progress beyond a some-what insubstantial looking little brick wall. Of the ultimate appearance of either building the great mass of Harvard men know nothing. The difficulties confronting the completion of the one unit have served to prevent the release of information regarding the other. This situation is somewhat hard to explain on any grounds other than the usual promptness of the University authorities to snatch...
...Wing Monoplane. While Giuseppe H. Bellanca, Italian, was designing a monoplane with elevators so large that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...