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Word: preventers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unless Democrats prevent, which is unlikely, Mrs. McCormick will be elected to Congress in November. She will undoubtedly make an active, vigorous member; for while the locations of her four residences-a ranch in Wyoming; a farm at little Byron, Ill..; a camp in Virginia; an ancient manor in Georgetown, well out of Washington-bespeak her inclination to "get away from it all," still she is far more the intense realist than the intellectual recluse. She sees no sex in statesmanship. She says she knows some women who are qualified right now for Cabinet positions. Some day, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Illinois | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...order to obviate the danger of excessive cramming and to prevent pre-examination nervousness Harvard has decided not to announce the names of the ten English students chosen to compete with Yale next week until after the competitive examinations have been taken. The avowed purposes of this decision are important but by no means include the only benefits which should accrue from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEST PAPER | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Informed of a decree that will prevent her appearing on any stage with actors who belong to the Actors' Equity Association, Jeanne Eagels was unregenerate. She called the verdict "ridiculous and unjust." She said: "No handful of actors for whom, with a few exceptions, I have no respect, can keep me from Broadway. I'll be back in a new play by Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ill Eagels | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...humbug; . . . I say all open and sunny: What I really want is for you to give me a good time. ... In return I'll keep company with you!-literally. . . . They can judge, then, if my company's worth it. What's to prevent them running? . . . It's the same high seas and black flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: More Mothers | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Accept my congratulations on your mail-bags of this morning and the other day. You have gloriously fulfilled the CRIMSON'S grand old motto. "Make a stink." Though the callowness and hyperbole in your anonymous communications will prevent their hurting the eminent young scholar against whom they were directed, they cannot fail to decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With All Due Applause | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

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