Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress may prevent interstate transportation from being used to bring into a state articles the traffic in which the state has constitutional authority to forbid, and has forbidden, in its internal commerce...
...science department of the University of Nebraska has had over 4,000 letters of inquiry on it. But the other 47 States are more than likely to wait until they see whether Nebraska's experiment justifies the unicameralists. Bicameralists claim that one house acts as a check to prevent the other from hasty action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative buck-passing: what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto by the Governor. Although bicameralists argue that one chamber will...
With much ostentation, the Young Marshal was taken to court by a military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights...
...decency of Great Guy is guaranteed by the fact that its hero, Johnny Cave, is an honest public official fighting a gang of political crooks. Johnny's position on the side of law & order does not prevent him from using guttersnipe technique...
...this epidemic of grippe, many students are confinen to their rooms instead of being quartered at the Infirmary. This condition endangers rapid spread of the disease and is altogether an inconvenient and make-shift arrangement. Until Stillman is completely remodelled instituting modern scientific improvements and increasing the capacity to prevent overflows in the future, Dr. Bock and the students will have to bear the present situation, but not, it is hoped, silently...