Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history persists in its little habit of repeating itself, the above might well be taken as a prophecy of what will happen when Calvin Coolidge appears in the Yard although it is understood that the University authorities will take every precaution to prevent the repetition of the "ominous incident" that occurred at Concord...
...Rules against college men playing summer baseball have to be made to prevent a professional spirit from creeping into college athletics. At the same time, these rules work is paying his own way through college. Many a man works late into the night in order to make money to defray his expenses. If that man is a baseball player, he might easily earn enough in the course of the summer to allow him the advantages that other men derive from a greater amount of free time in college. In such cases, I feel that the eligibility board might well give...
...Four treaties to prevent liquor smuggling: three of them with 1) Panama, 2) France, 3) the Netherlands; one regarding border cooperation with Canada, with Great Britain...
...many poor children are criminal delinquents; yet how can good people prevent these raggedy jackanapes from practicing their malicious mischiefs, committing their public nuisances? Mark Twain was kindly disposed toward bad little boys; he made good reading of them. Nevertheless, many urchins since have unwittingly assumed the habits of his tatterdemalions without their redeeming graces; the U. S. is full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were...
...Blue Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Josiah S. McKean, composed of 58 vessels, including only a few battleships, but with seven of the fast scout cruisers recently added to the fleet and with three new S type cruising submarines, was to advance up the coast from the Canal to prevent the Black Fleet from making its base. The Blue Fleet was supposed to know the time when the Black Fleet had started and its greatest speed...