Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jenkins has suffered minor injuries that may prevent him from participating in the game, in which case his position at short will be filled by F. S. Hill '24. The former is expected back in the line-up next week, however, and will play in the Yale game. Coach Slattery has not yet decided who will start on the mound, but Bemis is the most probable choice, with Herrmann as relief pitcher...
Controller General McCarl, watch dog over the public treasury to prevent raids on it by any other department of the Government, once more collided with the Secretaries of War and Navy. He ruled that allowances to " indigent parents " of army and navy officers are illegal, and made his ruling retroactive; so some officers will have thousands of dollars deducted from their future pay. Secretaries Weeks and Denby are powerless and must wait till Congress reassembles to get relief for their subordinates. Mr. McCarl's ruling was based on the fact that in some cases the privilege had been abused...
...Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged to succumb to the superior yells from the Socialists. After a vote had been taken condemning the action of the Royalists, he walked out of the Chamber amid hoots...
Later he said: " If the English yet believe that negotiations are in their own interest, the foregoing rejection will not prevent them. We shall then, however, come with quite a different status to the conference table than if we had swallowed this humiliation. Come what may, in any event we shall not have furnished a legal basis for our annihilation but shall have saved our nerve and honor for the future...
...extension only exemplifies the proverbial boundlessness of knowledge; and without doubt, practicality, the safety valve of today, will prevent the awful possibility of an infinite progression of such founts of learning. Mean-while graduate schools grow in importance and every year larger numbers graduate and become not "freshmen among alumni", but 1L. or 1G.B.A...