Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benches and chairs are notoriously decrepit in Sever Hall, and present a real source of inconvenience in examinations taken in the classrooms here. New seats and benches, preferably metal ones to prevent further carving, are a practical necessity...
There is still plenty to be learned about all these forces, but that did not prevent Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard from announcing last week that they had discovered a brand-new cosmic particle which the heavens rain upon the earth. It has a negative electrical charge like an electron, but seems to weigh ten times as much and have a thousand times as much energy, easily passing through four Geiger counters, two cloud chambers and seven inches of lead...
Last week 16 hospital employes and the president of the Hospital Employes' Union, Fred Gardner, went on trial as a result of that strike. In addition to routine accusations of forcible entry & detainer, committing & maintaining a public nuisance, conspiracy to prevent others from working, they were charged with violating a New York statute passed in 1881. "A person who wilfully and maliciously . . . breaks a contract of service or hiring, knowing . . . that the probable consequence of his so doing will be to endanger human life, or to cause grievous bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to destruction or serious...
When 250 ft. from the ground he pulled the cord of his emergency 'chute. It also failed, opening only enough to foul the canvas wings, thus prevent him from desperately attempting his prime ambition -a stall landing without aid from a parachute. Said a witness: "When I realized Clem Sohn was doomed, I felt worse than ever during the World War. . . . The hush coming over the crowd was the most impressive thing I have ever seen. . . . And when Clem Sohn hit the ground, it sounded like an explosion...
...moulding of the spirit begins in earliest infancy. . . . What is important here is to persuade people that they are as well off as they can be until a better time comes; to persuade them that elsewhere people are worse off. The only way of achieving this is carefully to prevent any communication with the outside world...