Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action on the Gooding Bill to prevent railways from charging lower rates on longer than on shorter hauls...
...demands of his business in Boston will prevent his giving any consideration to the Wesleyan offer which was made about two weeks ago, he announced. It is probable that he will again assist Coach Fisher with the University team next fall...
...democracy has lost its vision. In its crass materialism it has forgotten the great broad theories and ideals of government upon which it was founded. A little sound reflective thought is needed, a restatement of creeds and goals. A sound conception of the nature and sphere of government would prevent, for example, the motion picture censorship undertaken by the municipal Worcester Board of Review which is now to use Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and members of the Worcester Boys' and Girls' Club as judges. Even the Boston American sees the absurdity of this movement, and gently pokes...
Following the example of Rhode Island Senators (TIME, June 30 et seq.), 14 Democratic members of the Indiana Senate took up their tents and left the state. They did it to prevent the passage of a bill which they alleged was a gerrymander. Last year, the exiled Rhode Island Senators stayed away seven months. But Indiana has a law which imposes a $1,000 fine for deliberate absence or refusal to vote. Grand jury proceedings were begun against the absentees; but before there were any indictments, the absentees "arranged matters," came back smiling after a pleasant little visit to Ohio...
...earthquake which rocked Cambridge and the entire eastern part of the country about 9.30 Saturday night threw the stylus of the University seismograph in Peabody Hall off the east-west component of motion, according to Professor R. A. Daly G. '95, of the Department of Geology, but did not prevent taking a record of the shock...