Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is to prevent the General Examination Board from publishing in the CRIMSON the officials (and actual) date of announcing the grades, with all additional interesting data that might be safely given to the students without, betraying the "Harvard System"? This would at least permit the Seniors to arrange their plans with some degree of definiteness and avoid the demoralizing anxiety which the present day to day uncertainty produces. DONALD BOURNN...
...Krim's hoodlums out of mischief. The French command may not send a shell, man, or plane across the border to destroy the Moorish bases, and it would be a very simple task, without violating the treaty agreement. Similarly, they can not blockade the Spanish ports of Morocco to prevent the steady traffic in arms by which the war is continued...
...experience as a labor manager and has prepared several special studies on industrial relations in the clothing industry. Mr. Haber plans to study the labor problem in the building industry in the light of the entire industrial situation in an attempt to discover the conditions in that industry which prevent stabilization and industrial peace. Attention will therefore be given not only to the immediate problems of industrial relations and industrial disputes, but also to the problems of seasonality, restriction of output, and price competition among manufacturers and dealers, and the relation of these problems to each other...
...horrible dilemma. They told him that, providentially, the half-filled tank was on higher ground than the empties. All Mr. Wilbur need do was to authorize the drainage of oil from the half-filled to the empties. This would cover the floor of the empties with oil and would prevent most of the damage. It was a very simple operation needing only some simple pipes and the force of gravity. In fact, there was present an eminent American who would do it at his own expense, if authorized. "What about it, Mr. Wilbur...
...Police are to be empowered to seize seditious material and otherwise prevent circulation of seditious publications...