Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selling, but it is, for obvious reasons, not open to all men. It is also comparatively scarce as the number of jobs in that line is rarely, if ever, equal to the number of men desiring such work. There are certain peculiar qualifications which go with this work which prevent many otherwise worthy men from securing it. It is, furthermore, for a really able man not nearly so remunerative as sales work...
...Began consideration of the Gooding "long and short haul" bill, which would prevent railroads from cutting their transcontinental freight rates to compete with water-borne freight. ¶ Adopted a resolution for an investigation of the Tariff Commission by a special committee of five Senators (see below...
...safety ruling, replied. "The new rule requires that, after a safety, the ball must be kicked from the 20-yard line by the team against whom the safety was made. The reason for its adoption is that safeties were being made intentionally to waste time and thereby prevent the opposing team from making a touchdown. A team in the lead by the margin of one touchdown can afford to allow its opponent as many as three safeties. The new play makes it absolutely necessary to put the ball into play by kicking. This takes the ball away from the team...
...President Pringle is right. When undergraduate affairs are such that the local officers of the law must intervene to prevent the college from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp...
...myself of various financial rises in the locality which have my Vagabond mind rather worried, I shall wend my way to Sever 35 where Dr Maynadier at eleven o'clock promises to discuss a gentleman, hight Borrow, whose name has a subtle attraction for the wandering soul. This will prevent my hearing Professor Edgell in his lecture on Fifteenth Century Architecture at Fogg. But this Vagabond has as yet failed to develop a dual personality--and the name Borrow has such charm...