Search Details

Word: prevented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

This sort of student is in truth found upon every campus: he is a parasite to the attainment of ideal educational conditions. Yet, as Miss Brooks says, the work must be done, and since this is so, it should be distributed over the whole student body in order to prevent any one student from losing sight of the real object of his being at college. If he does this, he hurts the university morale. On the other hand he may be helping himself, for by serving in these ways, he may develop himself better than he would did he become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Morale | 6/10/1925 | See Source »

...decision of the Los Angeles court may make it possible immediately to run enough oil into the storage tanks at Hawaii to prevent them from completely rusting to pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Contra Bonos Mores | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...prevent such a ridiculous and such a tragic dilemma is the task of the Liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...Hope of winning the 100 yd. disappeared Friday when Miller again injured his leg which was hurt in the Princeton meet, and which kept him from running in the Intercollegiate. As he left the field Friday, he limped perceptibly. He will probably run against Norton but his tendon will prevent him from doing his best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK OUTLOOK DARK AS STAR IS INJURED AGAIN | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...That violation of the Eighteenth Amendment during commencement this year, has been deliberately planned, was brought to my attention a few days after reading your Times letter. Seeking help to prevent such lawbreaking at his reunion, the Rev. Clement G. Clarke of Portland, Oregon, a '95 graduate, wrote that he was communicating with you and others. In writing me he quoted an excerpt from a letter written him by the Chairman of his class Reunion Committee, an ex-President of the Yale Club of New York City, as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tut, Tut | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Previous | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | Next