Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Lacey has pointed out, for instance, that the "sheer force of numbers" would prevent Harvard from holding an outdoor picnic for the entire sophomore class as Radcliffe did this spring. "I doubt if Mr. Trottenberg would want to serve chicken in the Yard," she said...
...there were other things to occupy a freshman's mind then; the varsity had trounced Yale, 17 to 0; Smith Halls had captured the interdormitory football crown; and the city of Cambridge was doing its best to prevent the College from seeing the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "Fiesta," which was reported to be "crude, immoral, and unfit for production." Three policemen were sent to observe the play and report on its fitnss, and all agreed that it was much too harmful to the citizenry to be produced; the three "experts" ordered that it be closed. Another annoyance...
...things; it is the ecstatic manifestation of the Ground of Being in events, persons and things. Such manifestations have shaking, transforming and healing power. They are saving events in which the power of the New Being is present. On these healing forces the life of mankind always depends; they prevent the self-destructive structures of existence from plunging mankind into complete annihilation...
...many people in this country to the snares of Soviet propaganda," Lawrence pointed out that even the original USIA budget request for $144 million was minuscule compared to Russian propaganda outlays, and "a mere pittance for the dissemination of ideas that could influence people abroad, restrain capricious rulers and prevent...
...Volkswagen's plant investment but well below its estimated assets of $250 million. Erhard aims for "wider ownership of the means of production" by making special provisions for wage earners. The government will give 10% to 20% discounts to Germans earning up to $3,500 a year. To prevent stock control from going to big companies, especially foreign ones, Bonn will limit stock purchases by any buyer (probably to between $2,500 and $7,500) and regulate future stock transfers...