Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great part of the Houghton collection lies in the vast, rambling stacks which run underneath the building, with an annex under Lamont, reached by a long echoing corridor. The stack area is air conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration of the books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number...
...prevent prevent incumbent influence, the Harvard Young Republican Club Planning Committee adopted a resolution yesterday stating that a club president must "play no public role in the campaign of any candidate for his office...
...later, smilingly explained that he had had some hay down on his farm that needed tending. Says he today: "There were about a dozen things thrown at the Rules Committee, and they would have cost the taxpayers about $10 billion. There was no way on God's earth to prevent them from coming out if the committee met. That's why I went away...
...highly-placed Administration official predicted that the Class of '63 might include up to 100 additional members, due to the addition of Wigglesworth and the reopening of Thayer North. However, Dean von Stade said that deconversion, plus the elimination of forced commuting, would prevent any increase in the size of the entering class...
...program added up to a good job of tabloid reporting. While the facts were scarcely new, the anonymous voices (disguised by electronic gadgets to prevent identification) made for excitement. The show was a sample of a growing form of radio journalism, used in the past on CBS's report on juvenile delinquency and on the Murphy-Galindez case. Despite its authenticity and immediacy, the trouble with such reporting is apt to be lack of evaluation. The Business of Sex raised but never attempted to answer the crucial question of whether the use of prostitutes in business is "an isolated...