Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Lien. In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Mabel Tarrant charged that her husband claimed he was justified in removing her false teeth to prevent her from visiting friends: he had paid for them...
...University's work laid special emphasis on the causes for a sharp decline in the population of Yap. Four major typhoons occurred while the study was going on, but this did not prevent the research crew from compiling a thorough analysis of the native culture with its age-grading custom and strict caste system...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...
Among his supplement recommendations, Harris includes "scaled" tuition increases which would not prevent financially handicapped students from attending college. "Tuition charged wealthy undergraduates can well be raised enormously," Harris says, "and our schools should seriously consider furnishing a free education to deserving but impoverished students...
Instances such as the CRIMSON's use of the term may easily be pointed out as examples of a "Western Superiority" attitude by non-Caucasian peoples. We feel that a newspaper organization which represents Harvard should be sufficiently discerning to prevent such unfortunate, although unintentional, references from appearing in its articles. Chae Chu Chi '52 James Bouzoukis '52 William Vasquez...