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Word: preventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feild must go because of Harvard's teacher-tenure and departmental-autonomy systems. By these, the committee of six permanent fine arts professors are entrusted with the final decision as to who shall teach under them. Thus they are able to choose their own successors, perpetuate their own ideas, prevent any change, and eliminate unwanted personalities. So long as they remain in control, the department will be static--as it was at its founding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF SIX | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...Council: " We can't let a city of 2,000,000 go without water. . . . We will simply have to call out our police and seize coal wherever we find it, probably from the railroad trains. It would be a case of committing a technical crime in order to prevent a great human crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Human v. Technical | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...larger than Lille's (201,000) only in the name of humanity, that the Loyalist Government would be treated as a friendly one but would not be permitted to function inside French territory. The rumors flew thick & fast that France and Britain were about to do something to prevent further bloodshed in the war. From London came a report that the British had been asked by the Loyalists to act as intermediaries. From Perpignan came a dispatch saying that President Azaña opposed further resistance. He was said to have split with Dr. Negrin and to have gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Police Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

News of a possibly non-alcoholic Carnival broke too late to prevent the usual exodus from Northampton, Wellesely, and Poughkeepsie. Outing Club officials said that the festival was as "gay, popular, and boisterous as ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnival's Prompt Telegram Averts Week End Crisis | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Truly the Dartmouth Outing has only gained by the spiriting away of its spirit license. It is unfortunate that this will not prevent all inebriation; man's baser instincts invariably find expression in some subversive manner. Nevertheless, a body blow has been struck for right and temperance. All clean livers should rejoice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO FIREWATER | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

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