Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armistice Day Weekend actions planned by the students' committee is to combat this callousness, and to organize into an effective force the antiwar sentiment of the great majority of the student body. The actions are taken during Armistice Day Weekend because we are convinced that action to prevent future wars is the most effective tribute to those who have died in the wars of the past...
...University recognized that the public was not benefiting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken in the name of the University. It is on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson will base his defense...
...once it looked as if the Administration meant business. President Roosevelt, pelted with demands for action, declared that adequate enforcement of the Oil Code was necessary to prevent surpluses accumulating. Having received his orders from Attorney General Cummings. L. R. Martineau Jr., the new special oil prosecutor, darted by plane to the East Texas Field to lead a platoon of Federal agents into the murky forest of 10,000 derricks...
...conclusion, Mr. Bacon said that he would do everything in his power in the remaining days of the campaign, to prevent the State House from being disgraced by the presence of Curley. He claimed that Curley's star is on the down-grade, and his own in the ascendancy, that sentiment has changed in the past week...
...that the team's star end, Negro Willis Ward, be allowed to play against Georgia Tech. At a mass meeting, athletic authorities insisted that he should not play because 1) it would be discourteous to Georgia Tech; 2) he might be injured. Two hundred campus radicals threatened to prevent the game by standing in the middle of the field. The Ann Arbor Ministerial Association drew up a protest. Said the Michigan Daily: ". . . If the athletic department forgot it had Ward on its football team when it scheduled a game with Georgia Tech, it was astonishingly forgetful...