Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prevent the higher fees from excluding good students who couldn't afford the increase, Harris advocated expanded financial aid programs. Harris's comments backed the idea for a $400 million Federal scholarship fund and other proposals made in a speech given in Chicago this week by Earl J. McGrath, president of the University of Kansas. McGrath had also noted that a 50 per cent increase in tuitions would bring $1 billion more per year to the nation's schools...
...communists realize this and have been quick to capitalize on any discontent, especially in the bureaucracy. Pibul realizes the danger and has begun to prevent or prepare for such an eventuality. His failure would probably mean the loss of the West's most certainally in the Far East to the communist firmament...
...Paul). Perhaps most revolutionary of all at the Volksoper, where talent often plays second fiddle to length of service, Prawy hand-picked 20 beauties for his chorus and excused the theater's other 60 choristers. After that all Prawy had to do, by sheer dictatorial force, was to prevent the Austrian singers from ad-libbing about Vienna weather, Austrian taxes or anything else they might think funny in the middle of a song...
...institute fears that the population increase in the "underdeveloped areas" will be so rapid that "religious and moral disintegration" may result. To prevent this, argues the institute, "social, economic and cultural means" should be looked for, but may not be enough. Asks the institute: "How could the population growth itself be influenced" to bring about a "social structure satisfying the-requirements of complete human well-being?" Answers (minimum of 50,000 words) must comply with the requirements of Catholic principles and at the same time must be effective from a positive scientific point of view." Winners will be chosen before...
Ever-rabid in its denunciation of Senator McCarthy's witch hunts, the Americans for Democratic Action has recently assumed its own air of inquisitorial self-righteousness. Last week the national headquarters intervened to prevent Alger Hiss from speaking at the Swarthmore chapter of the ADA. Since the national organization gave no other grounds for its authoritarian behavior, its action obviously represents an attempt to raise a facade of political respectability...