Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby last night indicated that he would send Ted Backe, team ace and captain, along with number five man Bud Ager to the Newport competition. Previous summer commitments of the Varsity's two, three, and four men will prevent their play...
Hour after hour, the President's labor adviser, John Steelman, sweated through negotiations at the White House with management and labor. They came to nothing. This week, 18 hours before the strike deadline, Harry Truman seized the roads to prevent "a nationwide tragedy." He put Secretary of the Army Royall in charge of the railways, ordered the Army to operate them. Then he gave the three stubborn brotherhoods-the engineers, firemen and switchmen-until 5 o'clock that afternoon to call off the strike...
...find their own way through four years of college. The indifference of the Freshman adviser is so well known as to have become the butt of popular witticisms. The highly important Freshman year, because of this indifference, is far too often spent in wasted effort--there is nothing to prevent a student from over-specializing or from over-generalizing, or from thinking in terms of an altogether wrong field of concentration...
...formation of such a defensive group of free states would not be a counsel of despair but a message of hope. It would not mean that we regarded a third world war as inevitable, but that ... to prevent such a war [we] would organize so as to confront the forces of Communist expansionism with an overwhelming preponderance of moral, economic and military force ... so used that the free nations cannot be defeated one by one. No measure less than this will...
...Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis from getting first and second in that event. If the sprinters can come through...