Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenging incompetence are certainly not ideal, but in the present state of society it seems difficult to do without some formal evaluation of the individual, especially if he is to set himself up as an expert or professional. Having marks may encourage the prestige bug, but it does not prevent creative thinking. i.e. contends that passing an exam requires only one night of concentrated study. If this is true, a considerable section of the year is left for intellectual dalliance. If it is true that the intellectual is unable to retain his perspective in the face of eight exams...
...Marshall's emotional belligerency did not prevent him (after taking the Colonial Secretary and wife to the opera) from making a last-minute suggestion that the decisions of the present Security Council should be cleared through the British Parliament. The suggestion drew a hoot of derision from Lee: "Incredible political ineptitude . . . Never has so much humbug been enacted in so short a time by such a leadership...
Presumably, the age limit is intended to prevent activities offensive or dangerous to the public from taking place, in public, and to preserve the health of the young-both perfectly good intentions. It would be well to consider, however, that drunken driving endangers America's youth more than delirium tremens. Authorities, therefore, should crack down hard, not on drinking so much as on drunkenness, especially when driving. Fines for driving while intoxicated could be increased, or operator's license could be revoked frequently...
...Wehrmacht Knew. The majority of the Gestapo's victims were Jews. But obedience to Hitler's perverted racial laws did not prevent cynical Gestapo bosses from trading thousands of Jewish lives for money or political advantages. In Poland and the Ukraine, where there were not enough tank ditches, and natural ravines were used to pack in the naked bodies of millions of massacred men, women and children, the SD Action Groups were full of self-pity for their exacting task. Crankshaw notes that volunteer groups from Lithuania and the Ukraine were only too ready to help...
Eliot's baseball team lost to Yale champion Calhoun College, 12 to 11, in a seven-inning slugfest, also at New Haven. The Elephants tied the game at 11-all in the top of the seventh, but reliefer Nick Blume was unable to prevent the winning Calhoun run in the bottom of the inning. Left fielder John Bigelow, with three hits, and catcher Bob Radner, with two hits and some fine defensive work, led the Eliot attack...