Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...etre are not so apparent when they involve players of established reputations, who may have spent years in developing the ultimate perfection of their art. a protective organization which keeps Gwendolyn de vere from being stranded in some Northwestern mining camp excuses itself, but when it might undertake to prevent a public appearance of an artist of the stamp of Sarah Bernhardt or Henri Coquelin because of some minor infringement of its rules, it reaches the height of the ridiculous...
...enrolment just published by the Committee on Admissions. The enrolment is limited. Excluding dropped Freshmen, the number of candidates to be admitted to the College and Engineering School will not exceed 1000. This is surely a large number, larger than the record breaking one last fall. Large enough to prevent any accusation of narrowness...
...Certainly I bought and sold Sinclair oil stock. I dealt in several hundred shares through (Benkard & Co., and I don't care who knows it. I buy and sell any kind of stock I want. There is no law against it and my office does not prevent my dealing in stocks...
...proposed the above choice in a questionnaire and offered as a platform: 1) public ownership of the railroads, 2) control of money and credit by the people through Government and cooperative banks, 3) public control of natural resources, 4) preservation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, 5) prevent on of judicial abuses. If a local unit of at least 25 people sign a petition endorsing the above platform, it is entitled to one delegate to the Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention in St. Paul, on May 30, at its own expense...
...over Yale since the spring of 1922, when the Yale boat sank at New London, while it was still slightly in the lead. At that time, there was much secret rejoicing, in spite of--or on account of--the somewhat unusual circumstances; this time, however, there is nothing to prevent the Freshman team's receiving the praise that it certainly deserves...