Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballots on which the undergraduates will vote today list only four candidates, Coolidge, Davis, La Follette, and Foster. Voters may write in the names of any of the three other candidates if they so desire. The ballots must be signed for checking purposes and to prevent plural voting. The names of the voters in connection with their vote will be kept strictly confidential. Undergraduates are also requested to state in the space provided whether or not they are twenty-one years of age or over. This is for the purpose of ascertaining the percentage of eligible voters in the University...
...case the smart of the passing, electric light companies have rated their bulbs as so many candle power each, but even that does not prevent them from chanting in unison the words of Macbeth: "Out, out, brief candle...
...laws which govern the King's powers (chiefly those of the settlement of 1689-Declaration of Rights) are extra-legal rules cemented by precedence and the disuse of the King's prerogative, or what Maitland called "constitutional morality." This means that the King, in order to prevent a clash of laws or arouse public opinion against him, is compelled to do what his predecessors have done. He therefore usually accepts the advice of his ministers, dissolves Parliament when requested, gives his assent to laws.* But it remains an incontrovertible fact that he is legally within his right...
...Said Gastonnet to them, alluding to the Alsace-Lorraine religious dispute: "Long experience has taught me that ideas never gain ground by being either spread or defended with violence. Violence adds nothing to their virtue when they have any; and it serves only to hide their appeal, to prevent their diffusion and sometimes to make them highly objectionable. Ideas which have need of violence to attain diffusion and become accepted never lead to happiness, liberty or lasting peace and they never produce a very high or very human civilization...
...Latin America recalls the great change in American policy which has been going on since the Monroe Doctrine was formulated a hundred years ago. The first policy of the United States--and it was welcomed by Spanish America with almost patriotic gratitude--was to keep America for Americans, to prevent European aggrandizement of American soil and resources. It was a policy of self-determination protected by a "hands off" warning to the great powers...