Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whipple advised his fellow surgeons to avoid temper tantrums and "excessive showmanship." Said he: "Too often the ability of a surgeon is compromised by his temper exposed in the operating room, and he becomes his own worst handicap . . . His prayer should be, 'Give me skill with humility, and prevent me from becoming a prima donna...
...influence on private education. Small colleges and schools could easily be intimidated into dropping faculty members who held leftist views-Representative Sullivan asserts that several colleges have already "drawn in their horns" because of his proposed legislation. A wholesale dismissal of instructors with leftist or "radical" opinions would prevent colleges from giving fair and impartial treatment to many of today's most important problems in the natural and social sciences. Students would no longer be the sole judges of a teacher's lectures; instructors would also have to satisfy the Commissioner of Education. The Sullivan Bill would endanger the academic...
...following quotations are from arguments presented by several U.S. Senators in the current debate over proposed amendment of the cloture rule to prevent filibusters from blocking legislative action. Still in progress, the discussion began on February 28, and has been primarily a Dixieorat affair. The Southerners charge that the majority move is designed to clear the path for forcing antipoll tax, anti-lynch, and Fair Employment Practices laws through the Senate...
...scholarships and on advising working towards reports which should propose important changes in Harvard procedure. There is the matter of rents--with the additional money next year, there seems little reason for any rise in overall room rates. More money now should also be enough of a booster to prevent deterioration in instruction which has made a diploma from many colleges farcical since...
...most constructive moves in the history of the corporation." But the constructive move broke up one of the biggest and most profitable U.S. movie companies at a time when the outlook for all moviemakers was none too good. On the other hand, moviegoers would benefit. "Clearances," which now prevent small theaters from showing pictures too soon after their first run, are banned. In many small towns this would give a wider selection of pictures. Among the separation terms...