Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bankers who had just succeeded with no, little difficulty in securing for American an equal share in the loan syndicate of the great powers in China. Ex-president Taft has put it will when he said in the Yale Review: "It was leverage by which the United Sates could prevent the acquisition of undue power over, that people by any of the great nations, and could secure justice to China and the maintenance of its integrity." American has always stood for the "open-door" policy in China. In fact it was American who first made known to the world...
...heartily agree. He finds that there are hardly more than two British papers which dare defend the conscientious objectors to military service or to propose peace. Meetings for discussion of peace are broken up by rowdies. The Defence-of-the-Realm. Act has been twisted from its purpose of preventing information from reaching the enemy into a gag-law to prevent intelligent criticism of public interests...
...Student Council Date Book will be managed from now on by a committee of the Council, with J. W. D. Seymour '17 as chairman. The purpose of the Date Book is to prevent conflicts in the time of open meetings and the like. No organization shall hold a meeting open to the public, the University, or any one class, without having the time and day of such meeting ratified by the Student Council, through the chairman of the Date Book Committee...
...Europe our record is no better. We have failed more shamefully than in Mexico to maintain our rights on land and sea. We failed to prevent the loss of American lives on the Lusitania; we failed to prevent British bullying and piracy on the high seas. Had we made our principle of strict accountability clear and unmistakable before the Lusitania sailed, we might have prevented a great catastrophe, and moreover retained the respect of a great nation. Had we brought England to her senses by so simple an expedient as the stoppage of munitions, we might have prevented the pilfering...
Although it held Brown scoreless in the first half of Saturday's game, Williams was unable to prevent three touchdowns in the second half. The victory was no easy one for Brown, however, for Williams put up a stiff fight and in fact had the ball on Brown's two-yard line at the end of the game. The game was marked by few penalties and fumbles in contrast to the games played by the University's other opponents...