Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adoption of effective measures by the contracting parties to prevent, within five years, opium smuggling...
...numerous interruptions and fierce yells, he ably defended the Government's action, declared that the money had been disbursed to thousands of people and not to a few big industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...
...Young made a speech. Johns Hopkins students, faculty, alumni listened to him with attention, for he spoke of the Walter Hines Page Memorial Fund (of which he is Chairman), which purposes to start at Johns Hopkins a School of International Relations "for the scientific study of the means to prevent war" (TIME, May 12). To establish this school $1,000,000 is needed; for which the Memorial Association is about to campaign. "Military men and engineers," said Doctor of Laws Young, "have delved into the secrets of every science and even created a science of their own in order...
Inasmuch as the greatest open space hereabouts is the inside of Memorial, what is there to prevent the insertion in the parietal regulations, of a clause referring any and all soloists to "the Asylum," as it shall henceforth be known. All cases of saxaphobia, corlnetitis, or tromboneheadedness, whether mild or chronic, should be forced to recuperate...
...prevent sons and daughters is hardly enough...