Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hardest Blow. At the President's further urging, the Republican policy committee of the Senate brought out suggestions for changes in committee rules, designed to restrict McCarthy's reckless hunt for headlines. The changes-chiefly designed to prevent McCarthy from conducting one-man hearings-might not be enough to hold him in line, but they were important because they showed the attitude of the responsible Republican leadership. Sound, clear, public voice was given to that attitude by Vermont's Republican Ralph Flanders in a speech on the Senate floor (see Col. 2) and by Pres ident Eisenhower...
...weapon or service." But the military budget for 1955 tells a somewhat different story. More than four billion dollars will be cut from Army and Navy appropriations; spending for the Air Force and atomic weapons will increase. Advocates of the cut argue that cheaper and more effective weapons will prevent any loss in fighting efficiency...
...money will go to the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid fund, which makes outright grants to students whose extracurricular activities prevent them from taking outside jobs. The grants are made regardless of grades. An additional $250 was added to the fund from the fall Grant-in-Aid auction...
...will all be bracketed. Rhinelander said that duties as master of Eliot House will prevent Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, from giving Humanities...
...exact number of musicians that would make the trip is not yet known, but the group would probably consist mainly of Radcliffe students, Allen said. This is because many of the men in the organization will have summer jobs that prevent them from going on the tour, and because the Air Force prefers as many women as possible among its entertainers...