Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Application must be made in the usual manner, which requires ticket cards and the brown envelopes Students are advised to enclose checks instead of each with their requests to prevent loss of money beyond proof of reclaim...
...success of capitalism--"they're putting their funds into stocks. How do you account for that?" "I never heard that before," Trainor barked, and returned to his seat. His lieutenant took over the meeting. Gesturing to a bookcase which displayed such titles as "Only Victorious Socialism Can Prevent the Third World War," he said, "I'm sure you all must have some unanswered questions about our group . . ." The tall student in the back was pulling on his raicoat. "Yah," he said to his friend, "and I'll be that six-year-old kid does...
...answer to the question: "How close are we to a cue for polio?", Enders yesterday said that "a cure is not very near, but there is a good possibility that we may soon be able to prevent the disease...
...forward of the Dodge Report, the author said that the Corporation should apply to the courts for instructions. The one aspect "Which has caused the most indignation," Grenville Clark stated, "is the Corporation's efforts to prevent any judicial test of the legal issues." Courts will grant instructions, however, only to trustees who have serious doubts as to their duty, and the Corporation has no doubts. The Arboretum forces argue that it is the nature of the dispute, and not what the trustee thinks, that courts refers to when the trustee thinks, that courts refers to when they speak...
Against Brown last week, ten varsity runners crossed the line before the first Brown runner. Under the present system, the Crimson won 15-50, a cross-country "slaughter." Yet, there must have been fans and writers who thought it was Brown which did the butchering. To prevent sports editors from making the same mistake that the Traveler writer did, the Associated Press makes a notation after every cross-country score, "Low points...