Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rigid rules of rank and seniority employed by most American college faculties today prevent the talented teacher from fully developing his potentialities, Mrs. Douglas Horton, ex-president of Wellesley and currently a director of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, stated yesterday...
...idea behind the regulation was to prevent one station's signal from encroaching on the signal of any other. Admittedly, this is a good law, and many stations guilty of this trespassing have rightly been ordered to stop broadcasting. But WHRB is not bothering anyone. It is located at the very bottom of the dial, and other stations have never complained of its signal...
Frozen Assets. In Piedimonte Dalife, Italy, after surgeons opened her stomach and removed a bunch of keys, Addolorata Carbonelli, 42, explained that she had swallowed them to prevent her husband from opening the corner cupboard and squandering the family savings hidden there...
Help one Arab power Iraq and two other Arab nations bristle. Saudi Arabia's ruling Saudi family mortally hates and fears Iraq's Hashemite rulers and intrigues expensively with the riches provided by U.S. oil royalties to prevent the Hashemite Arabs (Iraq, Jordan) from ever getting together. And Egypt jealously regards Iraq as its chief rival for Arab leadership...
Toohy said that under a "gentleman's agreement" with the city, there is no discrimination against student drivers. "We ticket the students, and the city police ticket everyone else," he explained. "This, however, does not prevent city police from ticketing the students if they don't comply with parking regulations," Toohy admitted...