Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assault. In the excitement and nervousness of the first few minutes of a game, and with the disadvantage of a strange ground, none but a decidedly superior team could withstand such an attack. But after the first excitement has passed, a much inferior team can block their opponents and prevent scoring, though tacitly acknowledging their fear of defeat by massing around goal and playing only on the defence...
...hard glove fight was to have come off this morning between Tom Bates of England and Jim Hurst of Boston, but it was reported last night that the authorities would prevent...
Foreign: England has been implored to mediate between Egypt and Abssynia to prevent war. - France will not contribute towards the expense of making an inland sea of the Desert of Sahara. - Direct telegraphic communication between Germany and the United States was opened Saturday. - The London Observer says there is reason to believe that before the end of this week all the American suspects imprisoned in Ireland will have left the country...
...their institutions have been disregarded and violated. Science and literature seem to be all that is old-fashioned and good that we have left . . . . . America especially should cultivate literature. We have so much to depress our national literary character, there are so many obstacles to prevent our deserving and so many prejudices to prevent our receiving the praise of merit, that great exertions alone can obviate the one and conciliate the other...
...honor obtained from the marks he had received by a system that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while some, with careful conservatism, agree that it is a good which, like all other goods, possesses some grain...