Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...
...companies operating in Mexico were canceled by the Calles Government last week, under the so-called confiscatory Mexican laws pertaining to land and oil (TiME, Jan. 25, 1926 et seq). The U. S. oil operators affected by these cancellations prepared to begin litigation through the Mexican courts to prevent actual seizure of their properties...
...Virginia also had mentioned a feasible hook-up of his road with the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Western Maryland to form a Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast chain. It might be that either of these two were buying, or that the "New York Central crowd" had stepped in to prevent some competitive merger. Or it might be that John D. Rockefeller, to whom the road owes $11,396,100 plus 71% accumulated interest, was having a little fun with a dud investment. At any rate Wheeling & Lake Erie stock popped up from 54 to 65; Exchange Governors, thinking a corner...
That "upon discovery by the defendant of the condition of the plaintiff, the defendant delayed the marriage for a long time in an effort to induce the plaintiff to prevent the birth of said child by submitting herself to a criminal operation, and so conducted himself that the plaintiff's physical condition became publicly and generally known at the time of their marriage...
...individual opinion and accusation, by slow movies, or any other such method, because there is always another, and equally good side to the question. The only judge who is competent to accuse and condemn a player or a team for dirty football is the referee. He is there to prevent infringement of the rules. He is neither an excited partisan in the stands or an emotionally keyed up linesman or half-back in the heat of a hard game. His judgement, because it is obviously the best, must be taken as final. In none of the Princeton-Harvard games since...