Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange that such persons should be the loudest advocates of legislation most unpalatable to a great number, when should such a measure actually provoke forcible resistance, their scruples would prevent their striking a blow to enforce it. Others, perhaps, would be permitted to emperll their souls in the good cause...
...These two sets of observations," wrote President Eliot, "one at Mt. Desert and the other at Cambridge, taught me that prohibitory legislation to be effective must be nation-wide, and that only national authority could really prevent both the manufacture and the transportation of intoxicating drinks.... When the results of the medical examinations of the drafted recruits for the American Expeditionary Force were published, with their very disappointing demonstration of the physical incapacity of a large proportion of the recruits, and Congress took measures for the protection of the camps of American troops preparing to go to France against saloons...
...immigration policy, whatever it may finally turn out to be. And some would be almost certain to insist that if we could write our preferred policies into the Court Covenant they could do the same for their preferred policies-in which case, probably, clashing policies would prevent any agreement...
...when the Sorbonne and the College de Francs will have professorships of laundry management, of ten-room management, or of leo-cream making. But when we think of the time when, in the Chamber Des Deputes, they wanted to forbid the development of the railroads because they would prevent the cows from grazing at liberty and giving good milk, we are forced to admit that our ancient prejudices in favor of general culture and humanism have at times made us narrow minded, and a belt out-of-date...
Examinations will prevent the Bridge-water Normal School nine from playing the game with the University Second team this afternoon, according to a telegram received here late last night. The game was originally scheduled to be played last Friday, but rain caused its postponement until today, and another date has not yet been fixed...