Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...temporarily put a stop to college games, but this did not prevent the management from following out its original program, so that in 1918 the Marine Corps eleven decisively overcame an aggregation from Camp Lewis...
...rule, with its numerous interpretations, and proposes the following: "Before commencing to serve the server shall stand with both feet at rest behind the serving line and both feet shall be kept behind the base-line until the ball is struck." The main purpose of the rule is to prevent the server from taking an unfair advantage in getting...
...promised us? Is it for this that men died? Hardly. The people responsible for this state of affairs will find that what was endured without complaint in war-time will not be so readily accepted now that the war is supposed to be history. There are legal ways to prevent such misfortunes as have come upon us during the past year; if there are not, something is sadly wrong with the institutions we fought for. It is the business of our elected representatives to find a way out of our difficulties--not merely to start long-winded investigations which accomplish...
...fought three months against Russia, being honorably discharged after wounded in defence of his country, is a genius of high calibre. His mastery of the violin places him among the first players of modern times, and no one has a right, even under the guise of rampant patriotism, to prevent people enjoying the pleasure of hearing...
...Both heretofore and now the number of Rhodes men at Oxford at one time has been normally two from each state; the scholarships are for three years, and one man is appointed from each state two years out of every three. And there has been no new ruling to prevent the appointment of unworthy candidates; such a ruling always existed. The Rhodes Trust, it seems to me, has not shown any such lack of confidence in former methods or former scholars as you suggest. Would it be discourteous to point out that they have all evidence and that you have...