Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room at noon. Once trapped with an eight dollar fine, he is apt to think of all librarians as dusty financiers practicing free enterprise at his expense. Though a few defects and injustices have beset Lamont's heavy fine system in the past, only some penalty could prevent students from hoarding scarce books. Furthermore, a fund was necessary to replace those copies which have somehow disappeared during the year. A revised schedule of fines, to be tried this spring, will do much to improve the old system without impairing its ability to bring home the Bacon or the Carlyle...
Such a sweeping change in the ROTC curriculum would affect schools throughout the country, Smith said. "This, in itself, might prevent any action," he warned...
Under the support plan suggested by former Secretary of Agriculture Brannan in 1949 the second method would have been used. But to prevent farmers from flooding the market, raising the cost of the support program prohibitively, the Brannan Plan included a quota system to restrict crop production. The response of Mid-Western farmers and conservative farm organizations was prompt and negative. The alleged "regimentation" and dependence on a yearly Congressional appropriation were so repulsive that the proposal had to be shelved...
...Last year, no other member of HUERA did as much as I to prevent the A.F. of L. from gaining control of the bargaining rights of the janitors and maids. I thought the officers of HUERA that I supported were capable of running the union and I wanted to give them a chance to prove it." Wray said last night. "The officers have not proved themselves capable; they have failed the members...
...could prevent the displacement of many maids, Wray claimed. "The A.F. of L. has the best legal corps of any union," he explained. "HUERA has not even hired a single lawyer...