Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readers Raymond and Chittenden ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form...
Black-Connery Bill, giving the Federal Government power to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages throughout U. S. industry, was passed by the Senate just before it adjourned last August. In the House, the bill hit a snag in the potent Rules Committee, which can at least temporarily prevent passage of any bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach...
...urged to clear out of Nanking amid pathetic scenes. One high Chinese official, educated in the U. S. and a pillar of Chiang's regime, wept constantly as he supervised the packing of his ministry's more vital papers, the others being shoveled into enormous bonfires to prevent their falling into Japanese hands...
...whom wonderingly remarked, " . . . . But the things they write in the books!" And yet authorities sit passively by, spending extra money on replacement of reading matter while dullards in marking up pages often obliterate words and letters to change the author's meaning. Though every precaution is taken to prevent the stealing of books, the University passively allows them to be destroyed...
Most cases of book--scribbling are as shameful as they are easy to prevent. With enforced laws, only fools would dare to continue such a practice. "The sooner Boylston Hall can break away from its lethargy and acceptance of such evils, the better it will be for the condition of the books themselves, and the pleasure of all who have to read them...