Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that spring up and away from walls for easier sheet-tucking, 2) two bars with refrigerated drawers for glassware, perpetually cold ice buckets, automatic bottle-delivery tubes, 3) a tennis court sunken completely below the annoying swath of desert winds, 4) a swimming pool with surrounding tiles refrigerated to prevent hot feet, and at poolside a "spit" that will rotate sunbathers too lazy to turn themselves for an even...
...allowed to spend at the University in the special program is not a great deal of time, but most of them consider it long enough to make some real accomplishment in special fields possible. And as Miles maintains, "one of the functions of the Special Students program is to prevent individuals from studying aimlessly at Harvard just because they like the Cambridge atmosphere...
...Haven and Campus police authorities yesterday called in reserve policemen and plainclothesmen as a special precaution to prevent post-game public demonstrations today...
...main objective of the Bricker proposal is to prevent the exercise of the Executive Agreement without the express consent of Congress. Gordon A. Martin, Jr. '57, vice-president of the HYDC, called it "a dangerous restriction on the President's powers, incompatible with the world situation today" and emphasized the importance of fast action by the President in emergencies...
...fingerprinting is done, according to the Selective Service booklet, to prevent "any unauthorized persons" from taking the exam. The results of the test, given twice a year, are forwarded to the local boards, but do not "in themselves" determine eligibility for deferment, the pamphlet states...