Word: preventatively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since bread has been sold excessively cheap to Soviet aristocrats with cards,* the card system cannot be replaced by ordinary open sale without upping some-what the price millions of good Soviet proletarians (card holders) will have to pay for bread. To keep them from squawking, to prevent the abolition of bread cards from starting a revolution, there was only one thing to do: raise wages. Solemnly last week the Central Executive Committee raised, effective Jan. 1 the wages of millions of good Soviet proletarians, upped pensions and even scholarships. In generous mood it also upped the price the State...
Again the team will be coached by Charles N. Proctor of Dartmouth, whose assistance enabled the 1934 board men to come in third in the Eastern Downhill race, although he was unable to prevent his Alma Mater from nosing it out by a scant margin in the Tuckerman's ravine slalom race. The team is open to all men in the University, including Freshmen, and it is expected that there will be a team for each class, rather than only for the second class, as last year...
...pressing, according to Norman W. Fradd, Assistant Director of Physical Education, that the Varsity basketball practice may have to be held in the evenings. Mr. Fradd declared however, that he believed evening practice to be in direct contrast with Harvard's principles, and everything would be done to prevent...
...Sergeant Honda was put under guard. Home Minister Fumio Goto, responsible for the police of all Japan, was moving Heaven and earth to hush the scandal. He almost succeeded. Seventy-two hours after the wrong turn no Japanese paper yet dared mention it. Then Sergeant Honda, closely guarded to prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
...power team" of the first magnitude, Minnesota had gained by rushes the astounding total of 2,418 yd., while holding its opponents to a paltry 533. But not even that yardage figure gave a full-sized picture of Coach Bernie Bierman's jerseyed juggernaut. To prevent overconfidence and to dishearten and weaken its rivals, Minnesota has adopted the stratagem of giving the ball to its opponents during the first half by consistently kicking on second down. Not until the second half does the Bierman team open up with its prodigious line drives, cunning spinners, adroit passes. This style...