Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Warren of Wyoming was entitled to the post by seniority. He is 80, however, and has the important post of Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Consequently he did not care for the floor leadership. His chief motive, should he ask for the place, would be to prevent a fight between the other aspirants. It was agreed that there would be little opposition to him if he should express a wish to be chosen...
...Senator Curtis were chosen, someone else would have to replace him as Republican whip. The whip's function is to circulate among the members of his party, sound them out in regard to specific measures, discover whether any of them had made embarrassing commitments that would prevent them from lining up with the others on a given bill, ascertain what amendments would make a bill acceptable to individual members of his group and generally try to line up the party vote. It is an important post, and Mr. Curtis has shown himself able in filling...
...thickened by exposure ot the air, is scraped off by a small iron instrument previously dipped in oil. It is then worked in a heated pot until it is thick and can be formed into cakes about four pounds in weight. The cakes are than packed in leaves to prevent them sticking together, and dried. This is raw opium...
...substituted for war. That is only a natural step," he said. "Civilization has advanced as law has advanced. We must build up the machinery through which to prevent war, we must build up public opinion to support this machinery, and we must build up a national and international feeling of good will to lubricate this machinery...
...authorities. It is at the feet of the latter Harvard should lay the blame for his loss. The President and Board of Overseers with their shameful neglect are accountable for today's announcement. Their guilt must not go unnoticed. The facts of the present case demand action to prevent their recurrence in the future. Not in years has there been such a justified need for an outburst of indignation from every Harvard man against the powers that be in the University as there is today...