Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost equally close ninth, Mr. Bruce had apparently averted the greatest danger. The insurgents began experimenting with various progressive candidates. Mr. Couzens gained favor and secured the votes of Borah, Gooding, Norbeck, Jones. Mr. Cummins also voted (for the first time) for Mr. Couzens, the object being to prevent a sudden shift of the insurgents from naming Smith. With a fifth day of balloting in sight the 'deadlock continued...
...leaked in through the side doors, which were intended one for "Students and friends," and one for the "Faculty and friends" only. Due to the difficulty of distinguishing the General Public from the Faculty and friends, not to mention the Students and friends, it was quite impossible to prevent the more ambitions members of the General Public from impersonating the other classes. This largely explains the shortage of seats when the front doors were finally opened...
...third party does not seem imminent, there are no planks for a platform and no one to build it. The Progressives would do better, many believe, to mount the old platforms, deliver their new ideas if they wish to the people already there assembled, and facilitate not prevent the smooth working of Congress...
...enabled the work to be continued much later than in previous years. After the Christmas vacation the men will be given a rest until after the mid-year examinations when work will begin again on the machines and in the tank. It is hoped in this way to prevent the "staleness" which is so apt to creep into crew routine...
...most States the action of the law depends on judicial interpretation. The recent decision of a Chicago court finds no provision in the Illinois law which would prevent the establishment of a clinic, while the New York statute specifically excepts from its prohibitions articles "used by physicians lawfully practicing, for the cure or prevention of disease...