Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There can be no question as to the wisdom of the policy proposed. There can be no doubt as to its adoption when once the inertia of the public has been overcome: Intelligent people ought to see to it that this inertia does not prevent the prompt action necessary to secure this great boon at slight cost. Is it not a case in which Harvard men may fittingly express by their cooperation with the Commission-headed as it is by an honored graduate and benefactor of the University-their intelligent interest in the welfare of the community...
...There is no necessity for pooling.-(a) Serious rate wars have ceased since passage of Interstate Commerce Law-(b) The discriminations which pooling is supposed to prevent are prohibition by the I. S. Com. Law.-(c) There are other ways of avoiding excessive competition: Forum XIII 745 (Aug. 1892)-Western Traffic Association...
...There are special reasons for the interest of the U. S. in the seal fisheries in Behring Sea. - (a) Immediate action by U. S. is necessary to prevent extermination of seals: U. S. Doc. House Report p. 3883, 2nd Ses. 50th Cong.; Bancroft's Alaska, ch. XXI; Behring Sea, 93; Am, Hist L'f't, 16, 17. - (b) A nation's first duty is to maintain the existence of its inhabitants, and a large number of the inhabitants would starve if Gov. did not protect seal fisheries: Hall, 42; Fur Seal Fisheries of Alaska...
...freshmen of Tufts College held their class dinner Thursday night notwithstanding the endeavors of the upper class men to prevent...
Scarlet fever has appeared at. Tufts, and quarantine measures have been adopted to prevent its spreading...