Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrators and possibly the marines might have met in an engagement which would have rapidly degenerated into la riot. Certainly there have been instances both in this country and abroad to show the dangers which are latent in a mob. To forestall this eventuality the police were instructed to prevent any gathering from taking place. So, whenever a group gathered, in the streets, the police first told them to move on, and then rode their horses up on the sidewalk. Naturally, some of the methods were rather brutal land some unjust arrests were made. No one was, however, obligated...
...Bill meets his old A. E. F. top sergeant, who accompanies him back to watch his own funeral. Bill is properly impressed with the obsequies, but it soon becomes evident that his death is not the boon to his family he had hoped. His $50,000 insurance does not prevent Mrs. Trent's being suspected of murder, does not help his daughter out of an extra-marital scrape. But ghostly Bill keeps wandering around and praying, finally sets things to rights...
...pleasant note is added by the fact that Yugoslavia is said to be massing troops on the border to prevent the ingress of the Bulgarian radicals, most of whom are said of he anti-Yugoslav. By this time, the moves in a fascist coup d'etat have become so routined that the Yugoslav variant is more than welcome...
...already known and those that will be brought out in the Lighthouse Service Investigation will show the weakness of snap judgments. Granted that the "Olympic" was in the wrong according to decisions of Admiralty Courts which hold that in case a ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances. The "Olympic" which had navigated form Liverpool by dead reckoning until she was able to ascertain her position from radio beacons on this coast, was proceeding toward the Nantucket Lightship...
...extra-curricular activities, who would still receive a sound schooling under the aegis of concentration and distribution. A framework of this sort, with different curricular requirements, and flexible enough to take care of those who rise or fall from one category to the other, may well be necessary to prevent the superman from wilting in this huge university...