Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding better management methods, the group hopes to prevent rising prices from skyrocketing student rents...
...school messenger, having loosened the offender's braces and lowered his trousers, causes him to kneel on the block. Two pre-positors then step forward and place their hands on the victim's shoulders. This is called "holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands...
...world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...York Times last week printed a dispatch from The Hague, reporting that the Vatican was putting pressure on Dutch Catholics to prevent a settlement with Indonesia. The Times attributed the story to "a source close to the Foreign Ministry." Next day the meticulous Times corrected its error. It wasn't "a source close to the Foreign Ministry"; it was "a source beyond reproach...
...believe that the Administrators of Lamont Library are in error when they prevent 'Cliffe students from using its facilities. However, the author of the letter is attacking this problem with the same immaturity that she accuses us and our administration of having. Her "name-calling" was rather amusing but very unimpressive. The more mature way of dealing with this error would be reason rather than "name-calling." I might propose that "Miss Name Withheld" get a majority of the 'Cliffe students behind her and induce their administration, by petition, to open negotiations with our administration to correct this wrong...