Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson's aspiring journalists were sent forth on their quest with explicit instructions as to how to draw the desired information from the Eli graduates scattered throughout the Law, Business, and other graduate schools. In order to prevent possible complications they were to ask but one question, "What's wrong with Harvard", and to take down the answer verbatim. Only accredited Yale alumni were to be approached and short, pithy replies were to be encouraged...
Most curious of all is the rule that every car must carry a green light to identify the driver as a student. Such a ruling, it adopted at Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic in Harvard Square would be the result of the auto rental rules, a disaster that would be comparable only to that historic incident in which hundreds lost all but the clothes on their backs the great Valeteria Bubble...
Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
Whether or not the British have a right to prevent the building of the dam, seems to be a moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building...
Similar operations have been done on about 600 U. S. people now living. They respire through their throat opening. To prevent inhaling of dust and dirt, the hole is screened with gauze which a soft rubber ring holds in place...