Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tudor's resignation is due to scholastic difficulties and will prevent his participation in athletics for the rest of the year. Besides being a stellar hockey player Tudor got his numerals last year in baseball. It is probable, however, that he will be able to play hockey again nest season...
...type of statesman"; George H. Moses of New Hampshire, implacable diehard; James E. Watson of Indiana, old-school behind-the-scenes man; a few other Republicans; and Democrat, Cole L. Blease of South Carolina, whom only Mr. Heflin robs of the title "Buffoon of the Senate"-were determined to prevent Senator James A. Reed's committee from making any more campaign fund investigations. Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania, particularly, did not want his distant cousin, Mr. Reed of Missouri, to open the ballot boxes which elected slush-tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee...
...from saying that I think this particular law a wise and rational provision. That is not my affair. But if the people of the State of New York speaking by their authorized voice say that they want it, I see nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent their having their will...
...Easter was in the beginning a pagan spring festival to which the early Church affixed the idea of the Jewish Passover and of the Resurrection. This year the first Passover Seder occurs the evening of Easter Sunday, April 17, a coincidence Church calendar calculators long tried to prevent...
...case of a forced landing, a red carpet quickly spread would do for a cardinal, but would not prevent the Pope from breaking a tradition of the world's most potent Tradition...