Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punch at bat three hits out of five times at bat, including a long home run in the seventh inning with a mate on base. Slim Curtiss in gaining his fourth win of the season allowed nine hits, but he was able to tighten in the pinches and prevent the visitors from scoring after the fifth inning...
Realizing how coldly hospital admitting clerks behave, Dr. Newcomer urges: "Do not let the rebuff of a clerk . . . prevent you from going further than the admitting desk. You may always, if there is time, write to the superintendent of the hospital for information. . . . You may also write to the hospital and ask for the annual report or the year book. These publications contain a list of the staff physicians...
...could not expel Dr. Saul because that rich homeopath is not a member. But A. M. A. members could try to prevent him from operating his Philadelphia prepaid medical service by having him cited as an unlicensed operator of an insurance scheme. Dr. Saul retaliated by having his two brothers, both potent Philadelphia lawyers, tweak the A. M. A. nose where it stuck into Pennsylvania business...
...under flood lights. When 300,000 people visited Dickson's Jungle in the first eight nights, the authorities decided it made the animals nervous, stopped the show. Promoter Dickson finds London crowds the most tractable in Europe, Paris crowds the most excitable. In the Palais des Sports, to prevent a recurrence of the wine bottle incident, a net can be lowered around the arena to protect occupants from injury by spectators...
Before the inevitable submergence of the Student Union takes place, steps should be taken to prevent all political activities at Harvard from being pulled down at the same time. The Liberal Club trust fund should be removed from a group which has strayed so far from what the Club originally stood for, and an independent, non-partisan Parliament under responsible leadership should be established in its place. Only in such a body can the real political beliefs of Harvard students find adequate means of expression...