Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's running attack is built on a firm foundation, and it will take more than an inspired bunch of Elis to prevent it from reaching pay dirt at least once. Bill Stack is a fine center, Bob Brooks and George Seabury are a pair of powerful tackles, and Cape Burnam and Jim Dern are capable guards, but the pressure on them Saturday is going to be terrific. Moreover, the reserves for these men have the doubtful distinction of not having worn themselves out against Princeton. They sat on the bench all afternoon and picked up valuable experience...
WASHINGTON--The Justice Department tonight rejected organized labor's claim of immunity from prosecution under the anti-monopoly laws. It warned that it will punish unions attempting to prevent private industry from using improved production methods designed to bring cheaper and better goods to the buying public...
...public figures to whom any unpleasant notoriety attaches, or who stand at the center of heated non-academic controversies will be banned from Harvard. The motive behind the establishment of this or any other standard would be to ward off possible unfavorable publicity. Certainly it could not be to prevent the perversion of students' minds...
...Trotskyites disapprove most vigorously of Mr. Browder's Stalinism and we have been the victims of much abuse on his part. But this will never prevent us from demanding free speech for any working-class organization, however corrupt or degenerated it may be. We think Mr. Greene made a dangerous generalization when he affirmed his own taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind...
...different and amusing turn. A Jewish cop (Sam Levene), who has been appointed by a prankish mayor to guard the consul, sees that he is in a tight place. Unless the murderer is caught at once, all the Jews in the Reich will suffer because Officer Finkelstein failed to prevent the murder. Half by bludgeoning, half by clowning, Officer Finkelstein gets the mystery solved...