Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good win in this event, with a close decision in sabre and the expected good margin in foil, could give the Crimson the 16-11 win it needs. But both the sabre and epee teams will have to be at top form to prevent Yale from reversing that score...
...Committee thought the books in order, but said the membership roll included 242 more names than the total included on the role in Dean Watson's office. The Committee, not one of whom had a Harvard College background, felt that the predisposition "to prevent a presumption of innocence on behalf of any accused HYRC member" hampered their investigation...
After campaign machinations end tonight, it is to be hoped that constructive steps will be taken to prevent their recurrence in future elections. The HYRC would do well to take a more positive view of its educative function and replace its emphasis on internal politicking with a comparable concern for external political action...
...Imam of Yemen, who acts like a Borgia Pope, is known to have a minimum of five diseases in various stages of arrested development (rheumatism, heart trouble, bilharziasis, gastritis, syphilis), but this does not prevent him from greedily devouring huge meals consisting of nothing but Russian salad heavily splashed with mayonnaise. The Imam's greatest trouble is psychological: he is under the impression that the British are depriving him of huge oil royalties...
...time out for the Spanish-American War (he was a corporal), a 1912 trip to Europe and a five-year fling at retirement that ended in 1937, Rudy Dirks has been chronicling the Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them...