Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell into no such trap: uncinated came out with a "c," and transept, the clincher, with an "s." Last week, with a $500 scholarship in his pocket and a weekend scheduled in Manhattan, Champion Cashore admitted that he had "guessed a little" during the ordeal. But that did not prevent him from offering a word of advice to contestants of the future. "Study hard after school," said Bill. "And think before you spell...
Texas, which places a premium on superlatives, has the worst insurance laws in the nation. Because of poor enforcement, anybody in the state who can get a short-term loan for $10,000 can start an insurance company. There is nothing to prevent a promoter from writing up his assets far beyond actual value and, on this inflated base, selling stock and insurance. By such devices he can build a company up from nothing, sell out and take a capital gain. For these reasons Texas now has 1,884 insurance companies, more than all other states combined, and insurance...
MacLeish then credited Harvard's calm decision with saving other universities from surrendering their rights as free institutions and helping to prevent the United States from a form of society in which "things of the mind are regulated by the central state...
...Congress shall have power, in such cases as it may deem proper, to provide a suitable oath or affirmation for citizens whose religious scruples prevent them from giving unqualified allegiance to the Constitution as herein amended...
...change is perhaps due to the aging of the writer (he is a mellow 55), perhaps to the aging of the age. All Quiet was dedicated to a simple proposition: war is hateful, and the best way to prevent it is to hate it enough. It glowed with a kind of sentimentality in reverse. A quarter century later, that stalwart faith has come to seem as old-fashioned and disappointing as the generation that held...