Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While there has been some indications that the United States might consider becoming a party to the pact, American educational leaders feel that immigration policy and other restrictions would prevent any action in the near future...
...dining hall staff. At any rate, the biddies are opposed to Bermuda shorts and are forcing their inhibitions on Harvard undergraduates. Housemasters, long defenders of good taste in dress, obviously do not realize what is going on in their own dining rooms. They should act quickly to prevent biddie clothing taste from becoming still more domineering--lest John Finley return from Oxford next fall to find floral patterns appearing by mandate on Eliot ties...
...cities in West Germany are staging "musical manifestations" this summer. In the rest of Europe, from Mediterranean to Baltic Sea, there are some half a hundred more. Seventeen of them have found it advisable to band together to avoid conflicts in scheduling, programming and hiring of artists, and to prevent rivalries from breaking...
...relay system connecting Sanders, Memorial Hall and New Lecture Hall was completed this spring to prevent a reoccurrence of last fall's riot which developed when a large overflow crows was turned away from Arnold Toynbee's lecture in Sanders...
...some, the Big Four move was a dirty American trick. "President Eisenhower has never believed that any good will come out of top-level talks," said Laborite Woodrow Wyatt. "All he is trying to do is to prevent the Labor Party from winning." Nye Bevan added bitterly, "There is no government in Great Britain that the American millionaires want more than a British government which represents British millionaires...