Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday was frightfully curtailed. Worse, it will take these hens several days to settle down to work again. This cannot but be a catastrophe in the years to come when the eggs that should be laid yesterday, today, and tomorrow, will go on sale. The Business School will prevent that. Its surveys are already in the field. Within a week it will know how many eggs are missing west of the Mississippi. It will calculate when these missing eggs would ordinarily go on sale at certain chain-restaurants. It will know how many flue pullets were eternally dissuaded from saying...
...Visitors Board objected to the union on the ground that Andover was an orthodox institution, while the Harvard Divinity School inclined toward Unitarianism. They claim they have the power to prevent the union on this ground...
...Board was endowed with the widest possible powers, that they "were to guard over the trust in every way, to see that it should always be administratered in accord with the original Calvinist intent of the foundation." The Visitors felt, he explained, that this provision gave them power to prevent the union with the Harvard Divinity School which the trustees had arranged...
...entire motive behind the 'cabal,' now the caucus, has been the frustration of every social interest-of truth itself, whenever it threatens to interfere with special interest. It has the motive of the Camorra, the Black Hand, the Fascismo, to prevent the expression of ideas that question the infallibility of special judgments, regardless of their conformity with the facts of life or the laws and principles embedded in the nature of things, social, economic and industrial...
...wrong, why merely prohibit its advertising? Why not have the state cancel its charter? Finally, if a business has a legitimate reason for existence and yet can be advertisingly gagged through legislation that will benefit only a minority, where will the line be drawn? Why not laws to prevent the advertising of automobiles because this advertising decreases the demand for postillions...